The Jewish Holiday Table:A World of Recipes, Traditions & Stories to Celebrate All Year Long

by: Naama Shefi (Author)

Publisher: Artisan

Publication Date: 28 Mar. 2024

Language: English

Print Length: 400 pages

ISBN-10: 1648290973

ISBN-13: 9781648290978

Book Description

For many Jews, the meal is the holidayCollected by the Jewish Food Society, an organization dedicated to preserving Jewish cuisine around the world, the 135 recipes and accompanying stories in The Jewish Holiday Table are a dazzling expression of all the ways we celebrate through what we bring to the table.Discover menus for a Persian Rosh Hashanah feast, a Ukrainian-Mexican Seder, an Iraqi spread for Purim. And a memorable Hanukkah tale of grandmothers competing in a doughnut duel, with one's Moroccan sfenj recipe challenging the other's Egyptian zalabia. Reflecting three thousand years of love and loss, culture and change, each dish captures the soul of what's served in a Jewish home on a Jewish holiday.