Love and Knishes: An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking

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Summary: Good basic guide to traditional Jewish cooking.
Review: 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.

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Summary: The all-time masterpiece of Eastern European Jewish cooking
Review: 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 . . .

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Summary: Can't beat it for good old favorites
Review: 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!

Rating:
Summary: Can't beat it for good old favorites
Review: 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!

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Summary: The all-time masterpiece of Eastern European Jewish cooking
Review: 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.