Category: Jewish cooking

• March 10, 2024

  Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew by Michael W. Twitty

  

  “most importantly, Twitty reminds us that you don’t have to be Black or Jewish to love koshersoul.” Both a cookbook and a memoir, Koshersoul (Amistad) explores the food traditions of both Black and Jewish cultures and how for Black Jewish people, the two combine, becoming a distinctive foodway of its own. “When I first started…
• September 26, 2017

  Author shares Rosh Hashanah recipes: Cookbook offers sweet, savory recipes to celebrate the new year

  

  Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, celebrates heritage and a chance for rejuvenation. Emily Paster, author of the newly released “The Joys of Jewish Preserving: Modern Recipes with Traditional Roots, for Jams, Pickles, Fruit Butters, and More — for Holidays and Every Day” said the most common Rosh Hashanah tradition is to eat sweet foods…
• May 21, 2017

  Testimony by Scott Turow

  More than 30 years ago, Scott Turow released his first legal mystery, Presumed Innocent, a best seller that soon had any lawyer with a modicum of writing ability penning novels. Since then, Turow, a Chicago attorney, has continued to specialize in complex, multi-faceted books about the legal scene in scene in Kindle County—think Cook County.…
• April 30, 2017

  King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World

  For her new book King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World (Alfred A. Knopf 2017; $35), Joan Nathan, the multiple James Beard award winner, followed in the footsteps of Jewish traders as they circumvented the globe centuries and even millenniums ago. As they traveled, they brought the food cultures…