The Joy of Jewish Cooking
And the books to accompany it
March 04, 2010
(Jewish Recipes)
Is it really all that surprising that the woman whose Upper East Side apartment has 1,500 cookbooks—out of a collection that once numbered 10,000 (more than most institutional cookbook libraries)—immigrated to America 50 years ago from Israel? Haaretz has a great profile, complete with her list of six Jewish cookbooks you simply have to own (including one by Tablet Magazine contributor Joan Nathan). Which ones did she miss?
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
