Not By The Food Alone: Recipes and Tales from the Shabbat Table at Shanti House (English and Hebrew Edition) - Hardcover

The Shanti House

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9652298611 ISBN 13: 9789652298614

Publisher: The Shanti House, 2015

Synopsis

Not By Food Alone is a tasteful, moving and unique cookbook, with recipes, stories and beautiful photos of the family-style Sabbath meals held by the Shanti House Association. The book was created in order to convey the powerful, compelling and familial experience of the Sabbath meals, meals that, with flavors and love, embrace homeless youths that despite the hardships they face have chosen life. This is a book whose goal it to be part of the daily support for the thousands of youths that reach our homes every year. The book is composed of 54 double spreads corresponding to the number of Sabbaths in a year. Alongside recipes by the finest chefs in Israel, Shanti House volunteers and Mariuma, the book includes tales that were carefully collected from Israel and throughout the world, and have an educational message and moral. 32 of Israel's leading chefs, as well as the photographers that produced the book all volunteered to work on the book for the benefit of Shanti House children. Shanti House began with weekly Kabalat Shabbats that were open to everyone who did not have a place to eat a warm, family Sabbath meal, and from Shabbat to Shabbat Shanti House grew and developed. This book grew out of the unique magic of these meals. All the revenues from the sale of the book are transferred in full to Shanti House Association, for the purpose of saving tens of thousands of youths at risk who, by coming to Shanti House, choose life.

About this title

About the Author:

Shanti House, established in 1984, is a unique home for homeless and street youth, with the aim of looking after youngsters in distress and who have suffered abuse. It takes in youth from all sectors of society with no discrimination of race, religion or sex, and provides all their needs- from bed and board to therapeutic activities and education, as well as emotional support, love, compassion and respect.

Review:

Gefen Publishing House in Jerusalem is acting as distributor for a pair of cookbooks whose revenues will be transferred to Shanti House Association (of Israel), a shelter for runaway, homeless, emotionally injured, abandoned youth ages 14-21, many of whom have been physically, sexually and emotionally abused.

The layout of the books is beautiful and with chefs creating the recipes, needless to say, they are special. The comments by youth are heart rendering at times.

Not by Sweets Alone contains 60 dessert recipes from Israeli chefs. Interspersed are stories and sharing of thoughts by youth. Enhancing the book are 115 color photographs of people or artsy scenes; 142 color photographs show food preparation or youth working with chefs.

Not by Food Alone brings the scents, voices, colors, and tastes of Shabbat meals at Shanti House. Founder Mariuma Ben Yosef explains she would summarize the week, Kiddush was made and a member of the staff Michael ben Yosef would tell a story with a moral.

Beginning in 2008, Michal Moses suggested preparing a book of recipes for Shabbat, and with Dana Livnat-Gazit they enlisted 32 chefs, food photographers, stylists and others to produce this cookbook. --Sybil Kaplan, The Jewish Post & Opinion

About this edition

• Publisher: The Shanti House
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9652298611
• ISBN 13: 9789652298614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144