Love and Knishes: An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking [Paperback]

Sara Kasdan (Author), Kathryn Hall (Author), Louis Slobodkin (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Alexander Books; Revised edition (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570900760
• ISBN-13: 978-1570900761
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,560,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good basic guide to traditional Jewish cooking., July 16, 1999

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This review is from: Love and Knishes: An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking (Paperback)

Along with The Joy of Cooking for everyday basic cooking, I learned to prepare tradiditional Ashkenazic (Eastern European) Jewish dishes from Love and Knishes when it was first published 40 years ago when I was a newly-wed. The recipes and preparation instructions in Love and Knishes are simple, the ingredients are usually staples and the commentary is very funny, even if now viewed as, perhaps, stereotypical. The recipes are easily adaptable to today's guidelines to healthier (lower fat content) guidelines. I'm giving this as a gift to my soon to be new daughter-in-law. If your mom didn't keep kosher or prepare traditional dishes for holidays, sabbath etc. then Love and Knishes is a good place to start learning.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The all-time masterpiece of Eastern European Jewish cooking, April 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Love and Knishes: An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking (Paperback)

Love and Knishes is the original, the all-time classic, the true source of the taste of Jewish cooking handed down from our grandparents. It is the first Jewish cooking book you need, and if you buy ten more you will still be using this one to make your carrot tzimmes with matzo meal flour knaidel for passover seder. Not incidentally, Sara Kasdan brought to the book a distinctive, lively, engaging voice that makes for an eminently readable cookbook. Now, if they would just bring it out again in hardcover, like the original . . .

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT HAS PROVEN WELL OVER 40 YEARS, April 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Love and Knishes: An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking (Paperback)

I WAS GIVEN "LOVE AND KINISHES" AS AN ENGAGEMENT PRESENT 41 YEARS AGO. THE RECIPIES ARE MARVELOUS. MY FAMILY OF THREE DAUGHTERS HAS LEARNED TO COOK FROM THIS BOOK. I WAS PLEASED TO SEE THAT THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED AGAIN AND THE DAUGHTERS THAT DID NOT GET THE ORIGINAL BOOK NOW HAVE THE NEW ADDITION. THE NOODLE KUGEL IS REQUESTED BY ALL WHO HAVE DINNER WITH US AS IS THE STUFFED CABBAGE. THE YEARS GO ON AND I STILL FIND A RECIPE I HAVE NOT TRIED, AS I DID THIS PASSOVER. THE CARROT PUDDING WAS A HIT AT OUR SEDAR THIS YEAR. ENJOY THIS BOOK IT IS A TREASURE OF JEWISH COOKING.