Kosher Revolution: New Techniques and Great Recipes for Unlimited Kosher Cooking [Hardcover]

Geila Hocherman (Author), Arthur Boehm (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 16, 2011

Thanks to the availability of sophisticated kosher ingredients and food-savvy kosher cookbooks, kosher cooks are able to cook any kosher recipe at home. No cookbook, however, has taken the logical next step-to show cooks how to make any recipe kosher with nothing lost in the translation. Kosher Revolution does-with recipes in each chapter arranged from basic to neo-kosher, so as you cook through the book, you'll be building skills and refining techniques. With a handy chart for exchange info at-a-glance, Kosher Revolution promises to breathe new life into your kosher kitchen.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"One look at the plate of grilled figs and prosciutto on the cover of Kosher Revolution and you just know that this isn't your bubbe's kosher cookbook. Wait, prosciutto? Well, that's duck prosciutto, just one of the innovative creations that Hocherman and Boehm have created for their updated take on cooking by the rules of kashrut...It's an exciting book, one that sets out to prove that brisket and chicken soup can live in harmony with ceviche and French macarons in the modern kosher kitchen." - SeriousEats.com

 

"With careful guidance through step-by-step instructions and intelligent reasoning for the ingredients used, these recipes help home cooks indulge their fancies, traveling gastronomically around the world. This book will help a new generation of kosher cooks reinvent their cooking." - Joan Nathan, Tablet Magazine

 

From the Author

I'm a kosher cook with a mission to make kosher cooking as delicious--if not more so--than any other kind. Don't get me wrong. I love good traditional kosher cooking--comforting to be sure, but hardly "gourmet." I do it well, if I say so myself, and am always glad to add my versions of favorite recipes to the mix. You'll find some of them here. But my goal is to show you, whether you're a new cook or an old kitchen hand, how to make modern, blow-them out-of the-water kosher dishes--exciting, contemporary food of whatever kind you crave, from wine-braised short ribs to ceviche with avocado. To do this I offer a culinary toolbox so you can make any dish you've longed to try "kosher" with nothing lost in translation (the duck prosciutto on the cover is a stunning example of this). Once you learn to recognize appropriate, best-tasting substitutions, you'll never have to settle for imitations of the "real thing" again. Look for the D, M, and P letters signifying the recipes as Dairy, Meat, Pareve, or more than one, when appropriate substiutions are provided.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Kyle Books (September 16, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1906868530
• ISBN-13: 978-1906868536
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #506,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars nom nom nom nom September 29, 2011

By native texan

Format:Hardcover

Oh my goodness, I love this book. The directions are very easy to follow, and very easy to read. The Bubbie's Brisket recipe was divine. The ingredients really enhanced the flavors of the meat, and the meat became very tender and moist. The blintzes came out just like the picture, and my whole family loved them!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Forget Kosher!!! October 1, 2011

By Charlotte Vale

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This book is so full of sophisticated, tempting and DO-ABLE recipes, so full of glamorous photos of finished dishes as well as useful how-to photos, and so personably and clearly written that it would be a welcome addition to any kitchen--kosher or not! I don't keep kosher, but I love the option of presenting my Jewish family and friends with "old" standards updated to modern tastes. Geila Hocherman and Arthur Boehm inspire me to get to work making fabulous meals--easily and with real culinary flair.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars terrific book October 1, 2011

By florida marilyn

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beautiful illustrations,easy to follow interesting and mouth-watering recipes.reawakened my desire to cook!geila's tips are the icing on the delectable foods!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great cookbook for gentiles and jewish alike September 30, 2011

By AMY J. BRODERICK

Format:Hardcover

I received Kosher Revolution as a gift. I have already made the minted pea soup (delicious and really easy) and the asparagus and mushroom lasagna, which is fabulous and a welcome change from normal tomato based lasagne. This book is good for new cooks (easy to follow directions and helpful hints) and for experienced cooks (elevate an old dish into something unique). Most ingredients are easily found but I do wish there were substitutions for the more expensive ingredients (such as truffle oil). Definitely a keeper recipe book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything Can Be Kosher! September 29, 2011

By trilingual1946

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Delicious kosher recipes from a wide range of cuisines. The recipe for home made duck prosciutto alone is worth the price of the book, as far as I'm concerned! Better yet, the book focuses on techniques and ingredient substitutions for adapting recipes from virtually any cookbook or cuisine so that it's kosher, taking advantage of many of the excellent new products now available to the kosher consumer. Dishes that were formerly "off limits" for the kosher cook can now be made easily with relatively simple twists on a recipe that often make it better than the original! Kosher cooking has really been revolutionized in recent years and this book helps show how!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars a new kind of kosher September 30, 2011

By gerardtug

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This book is more than just a cookbook. It is an education. By teaching its users how to transform any recipe that they may come across into a kosher dish, this book is an education in how recipes work. This is a lesson that anyone can learn from---you don't need to be kosher. But it is not only an education, it is also a manifesto. This book represents the most recent move to push halachic Judaism out of its ghetto, taking Torah u-Madda to Whole Foods. Gelia Hocherman's bottom line: there is no reason God should keep you from embracing the richness of the globalized contemporary foodie culture.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars more than just a cook book September 29, 2011

By Javidor

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so many dishes I thought I could never have! kosher prosciutto?!?! i cant wait to get started on cooking from it this weekend. this is a must have for every kosher kitchen - i cant believe it took this long for someone to put together a cook book like this.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE January 30, 2012

By VEW

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I started flipping through this book when a friend mentioned that she had a delicious chicken/grape recipe and I loved it so much that I immiately ordered myself a copy. This book has so many amazing recipes you won't know what to try first! In addition, it has great tips, a few pages on converting things between Meat, Dairy and Parve, and even kosher susbtitues for matching the flavors of non-kosher items. You won't regret this addition to your cook-book library.