Taste of Tradition: The How and Why of Jewish Cooking

A Taste of Tradition is more than a cookbook of recipes; it is a user-friendly food guide that samples and presents the cultural and traditional heritage of the Jewish year. Holiday specialties and festive meals reveal fascinating facts about Jewish life, moral values and history. By offering many full menus, A Taste of Tradition, makes holiday meal planning easy and fun, covering everything from luscious canapés and hors d'oeuvres to mouth-watering desserts, with exciting and manageable dinner dishes in between. A Taste of Tradition was written in Los Angeles, while the author’s husband served as an Israeli Diplomat. Sirkis, being the wife of a diplomat, was frequently organizing social functions, from intimate dinners at her home to widely attended receptions. After years in which there was a lively trading in used copies of A Taste of Tradition this collector's item is now available once again, for immediate delivery of commercial quantities from our warehouse in Lynbrook, New York.

Ruth Sirkis is a native of Israel and a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is frequently referred to as “the Julia Child of Israel”. Her impact on the Israeli culinary scene was even stronger. Her first Cookbook in Hebrew “From the Kitchen with Love” sold close to 1 million copies, and is the all-time best-seller in the Hebrew Language, second only to the Bible. When Ruth Sirkis resided in the U.S., she was the Food Editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) of New York. Her syndicated weekly column was published for three years in the Anglo-Jewish Press from coast to coast, the UK and South Africa. In Israel, Sirkis was Food Editor at At, the foremost Israeli woman’s magazine, for 12 years. She had a popular weekly radio cookery program for 7 years and appeared many times on Israeli TV. Ruth Sirkis wrote 11 Cookbooks in Hebrew, all of them best sellers. Currently she pioneers the field of Cooking Magazines on the Internet, with weekly video segments and many more innovations.