The Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen

by Joan Nathan

Hardcover, 1995

Status

Available

Call number

J 641.5676 NAT

Publication

Schocken Books (1995), Edition: First edition., Hardcover

Description

Cooking & Food. Nonfiction. HTML: "A book families will use year round. The food and the lessons will be remembered for a lifetime.". "Full of wonderful activities and recipes that will add new memories to your family's celebrations.". "Nathan . . . shares anecdotes, folklore, and history as she explains Jewish holiday and Sabbath traditions.". HTML: There could be no more festive way to introduce Jewish children to their Jewish heritage than through the food associated with the holidays. And no better person to do it than Joan Nathan, whose great enthusiasm and knowledge have gained her a national reputation as the maven of the Jewish kitchen. Here are seventy child-centered recipes and cooking activities from around the world in which the entire family can participate. 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 are old and new, traditional and novel--everything from hamantashen to pretzel bagels, chicken soup with matzah balls to matzah pizza, cheese blintzes to vegetarian chopped liver, hallah to halvah, fruit kugel to Persian pomegranate punch. First published in paperback in l988, The Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen has now been redesigned and contains 20 additional delicious recipes and 30 delightful new drawings. From the Hardcover edition..… (more)

Barcode

2087

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User reviews

LibraryThing member bookczuk
Good for when there were kids in the house and we wanted a holiday kitchen.
Decluttering the house, preparing to put it on the market; this needs to find a home.
LibraryThing member nbmars
This cookbook is divided into ten holidays, and is meant to be suitable for children to use alone or with supervision (such as for Sufganiyot, or jelly doughnuts, which will no doubt require an adult’s help for frying the doughnuts). It doesn’t just provide recipes; it also gives simple
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explanations for procedures with which children might not be familiar, such as how to separate eggs and how to proof yeast.

Each holiday section and many recipes also include a narrative section explaining the customs associated with the recipes. Children may need some help understanding the vocabulary (what does it mean, for example, that Haman wished to “exterminate” all the Jews?), but adults will appreciate having the material to guide them in their explanations.

Recipes are made very kid friendly. Who would have thought a “Friday Night Pot Roast” could be made so easily, or that kids could make a fun and easy thing like “Edible Dreidels”? The recipe for “Cheese Blintzes” is a bit of a stretch - made by rolling out white bread, but this is something kids can handle, and will introduce them to the dish in any event until they are ready to tackle crepes. Yet there are more complex recipes, such as the one for Hallah, which includes directions with graphics for braiding.

This book is a lovely way to get children started on understanding their culture and the cuisine that is so much a part of it.
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ISBN

0805241302 / 9780805241303
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