Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lover's Treasury of Classics and Improvisations

An engaging reference guide to Jewish holiday cooking and celebrations features more than two hundred tempting recipes for the eight major Jewish holidays--Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Hanukkah, Purim, Passover, and Shavuot--including both classic dishes and innovative variations, along with personal reminiscences and Jewish historical notes.

Jayne Cohen is the author of one previous book on Jewish cooking and celebrations -- The Gefilte Variations -- and is the co-author of The Ultimate Bar/Bat Mitzvah Celebration Book. She writes frequently about foodfor publications such as Bon Appétit, Gourmet, Food& Wine, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and Newsday. Cohen lives in Greenwich Village with her husband, and their daughter Alexandra returns home to cook at every holiday. Visit her Web site at www.JewishHolidayCooking.com