Customer Reviews

Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lover's Treasury of Classics and Improvisations

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This is the first practical, clear and truly inviting Jewish cookbook I've found. I strongly recommend it for anyone who enjoys Jewish cooking and welcomes the encouragement to merge tradition with current tastes.

This is an amazing general cookbook and not just a good Jewish Cookbook. Beautiful layout, wonderful recipes (and yes I've tasted the end results), and very fun stories. A must have for any chef regardless of your religion! So stop reading this review and buy this book, you won't regret it.

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"Jewish Holiday Cooking" proves a good cookbook can be more than just recipes. Aside from clear, delicious sounding instructions on both traditional and unusual dishes, this book is a great read. I especially like the historical details and family anecdotes, which put the food in cultural context. This one will get a lot of use in my kitchen.

Refreshing new twist on the old family recipes! A beautiful book and easy to follow.

I especiall y like the improvisation part. Here, In Gainesville, FL there is no kosher restaurant and kosher food is not easy to find. One ca never get a fresh kosher chicken here, only frozen.
The bok could use a few e-mail addresses where one can get kosher foods shipped wit h their price and estimated amount of potage for shipping. Thanks.

This is a truly wonderful cookbook and an asset to anyone who loves food, regardless of their religious affliation. I am not Jewish, but having been born and raised in New York City I grew up loving classic Jewish dishes. This book covers them all, and goes one step further by reinventing these classics into truly gourmet masterpieces.Who would have thought that kugel could be transformed into a whimsical dessert such as Double Ginger-Caramelized Pear Noodle Kugel?! With wonderful stories and illustrations interwoven throughout the recipes, this book is a must have for any food lover.

One of the best collections of holiday recipes I have found. Clearly edited by someone who not only loves to cook but loves to eat. Buy it at your own risk, however, as you will be using it and the recipes are not low fat etc. Enjoy.

The description of the book said it had illustrations, it did, but none of the food! If you have never prepared a dish before it really helps to know what it looks like, however it did have all the recipes I was looking for

The Index at the back of the book is the worst I have ever seen in a cookbook. No page numbers for sub-entries. What's the deal with this???

This is a very fine cookbook--Jayne Cohen writes beautifully and her recipes are innovative and excellent. However, I was quite disappointed to find that many of the recipes in the book--and even the headnotes--are just reprints of recipes from her previous cookbook, The Gefilte Variations: 200 Inspired Re-creations of Classics from the Jewish Kitchen, with Menus, Stories, and Traditions for the Holidays and Year-Round. If you already own The Gefilte Variations, you may not want to purchase this cookbook, too.