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Love and Knishes: An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking

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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.

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 . . .

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.

This is the book that brings your long lost Jewish grandma into the kitchen, and it shows you how to do it right. The thing about this book that really sets it apart from the plethora of other cookbooks I either own or have read, is that it encourages you to not fret if things don't go right. "A good plate chicken soup never hurt Anybody" is the attitude that any good grandma would have when offering condolences to the chef whose matzo balls turned out like cannonballs. Almost every recipe in this book that I have used came out like my grandmothers. I suggest it to anyone who is fed up with commercial deli's and tasteless kreplech.

I picked up a first edition of this book years ago at a garage sale. Now whenever I see a copy I buy it and give it to a friend. Sara blends warm humor and lots of asides with the Jewish recipes I remember from my grandmother and great grandmother. The chapter not to be missed is all about Yom Kippur cooking. I am delighted that there is an updated version of this cookbook. It's a must for every cook,collector and casual reader. Plus at this price it's practically wholesale --- the first editions are going for $25!!!

Some of the directions were a bit complicated to follow, or didn't match what I knew the recipies to be. However, for the most part, this is right out of my memories of my great Nana!

My mom received this little cookbook for her wedding 40 years ago, so these were the Jewish recipes I grew up on in my household. I have continued her tradition in using this as my main source of Jewish recipes. People always tell me I make the best matzah balls and latkes they've ever tasted, and I attribute that 100 percent to tips in this cookbook. A previous reviewer mentioned the noodle kugel and stuffed cabbage recipes as well - both of which my mom became famous for!

My stained, strained and well-worn 1956 copy is my most loved Jewish cookbook; my Mom cooked all holiday recipes from this and many more. Sara Kasdan's writing style and the anecdotes are priceless. Even if you don't cook anymore, buy it just for a wonderful read and the taste of yesterday.

Perfect book if you want to learn how to cook Jewish food. I love the authors notes, very cute.

THIS BOOK IS EASY TO READ AND FOLLOW THE RECIPES ARE NOT COMPLICATED WONDERFUL FOR ANYONE LEARNING TO COOK KOSHER OR JEWISH.