Schocken

The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today’s Kitchen

Beautifully translated for a new generation of devotees of delicious and healthy eating:  a groundbreaking, mouthwatering vegetarian cookbook originally published in Yiddish in pre–World War II Vilna and miraculously rediscovered more than half a century later. In 1938, Fania Lewando, the proprietor of a popular vegetarian restaurant in Vilna, Lithuania, published a Yiddish vegetarian cookbook unlike any that had …

Learn more

The Book of New Israeli Food: A Culinary Journey

In this stunning new work that is at once a coffee-table book to browse and a complete cookbook, Janna Gur brings us the sumptuous color, variety, and history of today’s Israeli cuisine, beautifully illustrated by Eilon Paz, a photographer who is intimate with the local scene.In Gur’s captivating introduction, she describes Israeli food as a product of diverse …

Learn more

Joan Nathan’s Jewish Holiday Cookbook

Jewish holidays are defined by food. Yet Jewish cooking is always changing, encompassing the flavors of the world, embracing local culinary traditions of every place in which Jews have lived and adapting them to Jewish observance. This collection, the culmination of Joan Nathan’s decades of gathering Jewish recipes from around the world, is a tour through the Jewish …

Learn more

The Jewish Holiday Kitchen: 250 Recipes from Around the World to Make Your Celebrations Special

“Joan Nathan is the authority on Jewish cooking, from the folkloric-cultural-historical perspective, and the food angle as well.”                –Mollie Katzen,  author of The Moosewood Cookbook”This is how holiday cooking should be–warm, welcoming, and straight from the heart.” –Anne Willan, author of Cook It RightOnly the best cookbooks stand the test of time, and this rich assemblage of holiday recipes by …

Learn more

The Children’s Jewish Holiday Kitchen: 70 Fun Recipes for You and Your Kids, from the Author of Jewish Cooking in America

Seventy child-friendly recipes and cooking activities from around the world will draw the entire family into the spirit and fun of preparing Jewish holiday celebrations. Covering the ten major holidays, each of the activities has a different focus–such as Eastern Europe, biblical Israel, contemporary America–and together they present a vast array of foods, flavors, and ideas. The recipes …

Learn more

Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Own

Every year, poet and novelist Marge Piercy creates her own Passover seder with a group of family and friends. Babies have been born and grown up, friends have moved or divorced, but the principals continue to gather in her rustic Cape Cod home to participate in a seder that Piercy takes joy in tweaking each spring to make …

Learn more

Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built

WITH 8 PAGES OF FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES THROUGHOUTThe former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal herring, and silken chopped liver” (The New …

Learn more

The Covenant Kitchen: Food and Wine for the New Jewish Table

The ultimate kosher cookbook for food lovers, with more than one hundred mouthwatering recipes complete with suggested wine pairings, from the veteran cookbook authors and owners of the acclaimed Covenant Winery in California.   Filled with the flavors of Italy, Provence, North Africa, Asia, California, and Israel, these original, easy-to-prepare recipes take kosher dining to a new, contemporary …

Learn more