Cooking Jewish

Courtesy of KRON4 News. Judy Bart Kancigor, author of Cooking Jewish from Workman Publishing shows how to make Layered Hummus and Eggplant.

About the Book
Got kugel? Got Kugel with Toffee Walnuts? Now you do. Here's the real homemade Gefilte Fish -- and also Salmon en Papillote. Grandma Sera Fritkin's Russian Brisket and Hazelnut-Crusted Rack of Lamb. Aunt Irene's traditional matzoh balls and Judy's contemporary version with shiitake mushrooms. Cooking Jewish gathers recipes from five generations of a food-obsessed family into a celebratory saga of cousins and kasha, Passover feasts -- the holiday has its own chapter -- and crossover dishes. And for all cooks who love to get together for coffee and a little something, dozens and dozens of desserts: pies, cakes, cookies, bars, and a multitude of cheesecakes; Rugelach and Hamantaschen, Mandelbrot and Sufganyot (Hanukkah jelly doughnuts). Not to mention Tanta Esther Gittel's Husband's Second Wife Lena's Nut Cake.

Blending the recipes with over 160 stories from the Rabinowitz family—by the end of the book you'll have gotten to know the whole wacky clan—and illustrated throughout with more than 500 photographs reaching back to the 19th century, Cooking Jewish invites the reader not just into the kitchen, but into a vibrant world of family and friends. Written and recipe-tested by Judy Bart Kancigor, a food journalist with the Orange County Register, who self-published her first family cookbook as a gift and then went on to sell 11,000 copies, here are 532 recipes from her extended family of outstanding cooks, including the best chicken soup ever -- really! -- from her mother, Lillian. (Or as the author says, "When you write your cookbook, you can say your mother's is the best.")

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[nnasser007]

you cook in hell

[Maliw4321]

hmmm ....looks yummy!

[Chewbacca121314]

god damn jews

[LitCrit101]

What are the laws of 'kashrut'? Is that something like 'kosher'?

I suppose that these types of books in the US are more American than they are 'traditional' in the sense that people who actually live in the traditional culture would recognize. Chinese, Italian, Polish, etc. cooking in the US isn't really like what it is in China, Italy and Poland, etc. It's Americanized. Probably this is too.

[Lirit331]

What I find most poignant and sad about this interview is when he asks her what defines "Cooking Jewish" she fails to mention the laws of kashrut.