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Healthy Cooking for the Jewish Home: 200 Recipes for Eating Well on Holidays and Every Day [Hardcover]

Faye Levy (Author)
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March 11, 2008

Thanks to the ever-increasing number of kosher products available to home cooks, it's never been easier or more satisfying to prepare delicious, wholesome, and healthful kosher meals. In this new collection of exciting recipes, acclaimed journalist, cooking teacher, and cookbook author Faye Levy presents a progressive, upbeat approach to nutritious kosher cuisine that highlights the pleasure of preparing and eating mouthwatering dishes that promote well-being.

Kosher foods are being used in more and more American homes, and their abundance and diversity is increasing at an impressive rate. From the traditional to the exotic, from extra-virgin olive oil to tasty cheeses, from spicy condiments to Asian-style sauces, from Latin flavors to Indian, Levy introduces both novice and seasoned cooks to a grand array of international ingredients. By showcasing them in such dishes as Poached Turkey with Mushrooms, Wheat Berries, and Dill; Diced Vegetable Salad with Pepitas and Papaya; Marseilles-Style Fish with Saffron and Fennel; and Turkish Autumn Vegetable Casserole with Chicken, she shows how they will add zest to any menu while maintaining solid nutritional value.

With a focus on foods with substantial health benefits, such as nuts, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, Levy revamps old favorites, turning them into updated wholesome creations, including Springtime Chicken Soup with Asparagus, Fava Beans, and Whole Wheat Matzo Balls; Passover Haroset with Pistachios and Pomegranate Juice; Rosh Hashanah Chicken with Dates and Almonds; and Apple Apricot Whole Wheat Noodle Kugel. She introduces new classics to the festive Jewish kitchen, such as Cucumber, Jicama, and Orange Salad with Black Olives; Buckwheat Blintzes with Goat Cheese and Ratatouille; Spicy White Bean Soup with Kale; Purim Baked Turkey Schnitzel with Sweet-Sour Onion Compote; and Macadamia Orange Cake with Red Berry Sauce. Whether you're cooking for yourself and your family any day of the week or preparing a holiday feast for friends and relatives, Healthy Cooking for the Jewish Home is bound to satisfy all your culinary needs.

Variety is not only the spice of life; it's also the spice of nourishing menus. The two hundred healthful, tasty, innovative kosher recipes in this book are sure to add inspiration to your menus and variety to your daily eating, as well as zest to the lives of those who share your table.


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Healthy isn't an adjective usually paired with Jewish cooking, but Levy (Feast from the Mideast) puts a distinctive California spin on notoriously rich recipes to make them palatable to the waistline conscious. In addition to lightening classics like cholent and kugel, Levy features many Ashkephardic fusion dishes where the healthier (Sephardic) cooking traditions restore flavor when it is lost in the slimming down of east European Jewish (Ashkenazi) recipes. Hearty buckwheat blintzes are filled with goat cheese and ratatouille; turkey schnitzel is served over an Alsatian sweet-sour onion compote. Elsewhere Levy livens things up by adding New World and East Asian ingredients to old standbys, making a staid Israeli salad pop with pepitas and papaya, and accompanying potato latkes for Hannukah with baked tofu in sweet-and-sour ginger sauce. The book's first half progresses through the year's main holidays, from Rosh Hashanah to Shavuot, providing a dozen or so modernized recipes for each; the second half features dishes for separate courses, almost all venturing far afield from stereotypical Jewish food so that they could almost be from any cookbook. Those who are less sure-footed with kosher rules and techniques may be frustrated by Levy's focus on recipes' nutritional aspects rather than on religious questions. Still, anyone who has despaired of being able to reconcile healthy eating with hearty, comforting Jewish favorites will be thrilled at Levy's demonstrations of the contemporary possibilities for the cuisine. (Mar. 11)
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“Levy puts a distinctive California spin on notoriously rich recipes to make them palatable to the waistline conscious....Anyone who has despaired of being able to reconcile healthy eating with hearty, comforting Jewish favorites will be thrilled at Levy’s demonstrations of the contemporary possibilities for the cuisine.” (Publishers Weekly )

“The James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and cooking columnist for the Jerusalem Post has rehabilitated traditional recipes with ingredients such as whole-wheat flour, soy milk and smoked tofu; sauces employ fresh fruit juices, a wide array of spices and much less fat.” (Washington Post )

“Faye Levy presents a progressive, upbeat approach to nutritious kosher cuisine highlighting the pleasure of preparing and eating mouthwatering dishes that promote well-being....Healthy Cooking for the Jewish Home is bound to satisfy.” (Jewish Exponent )

“Levy has plenty to offer...recipes in her book are wonderfully inventive and will please anyone bored with what’s good for you.” (Sacramento Bee )

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks (March 11, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060787848
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060787844
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #842,354 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars YUM, July 3, 2008
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Healthier recipes both modern and old fashioned. It's about time! The speedy cholent includes wheatberries which give this version a great texture and the spices are really interesting. I love this dish. The tandoori chicken is great! Also nice spices and really tender chicken. Best of all are the desserts which are light and include ingredients that aren't hard to find. The Strawberry Shortcake in seconds cuts countless fat and calories because it has nonfat vanilla yogurt and low fat sour cream instead of heavy whipping cream. It's an awesome recipe.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars healthy cooking for the jewish home, April 16, 2008
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I found this cook book to be a very useful addition to my cook book collection. Some of the recipies are a variation of recipies that my grandmother taught me but the written versions of her recipies were lost during a move from one home to another.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Jewish Cookbook for Your Shelves, December 11, 2009
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This is an informative cookbook full of recipes arranged by holidays. I think you'll find lots of creative dishes to add to your table at any time of the year.
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