JEWISH MAMA S KITCHEN

A cultural cookbook that visits the home of the Jewish family. A Jewish Mama’s Kitchen looks at the traditional fare, its significance, and gives 100 modernized and accessible recipes for today’s reader.

Jewish Mama’s Kitchen is a cookbook with a light, feel-good factor.

CONTENT:

A Jewish Mama’s Kitchen is a celebration of the fascinating and diverse culinary traditions from different Jewish communities as continued by families today. Using a technique of reportage and focusing on the Yiddisher mother of the household, we catch a glimpse of how the old and new worlds meet and marry.
Denise Philips shares her favourite everyday recipes and those popular for special occasions as they have been passed down through the generations. She records the cooking skills she learnt from her mother and grandmother and divulges those family secrets that give certain dishes that extra zest that set them apart.
Chapters take the reader through traditional Jewish food from starters and main courses such as Falafel and Kasha and Varnishkes to Friday Night Deserts and Tea at Booba’s House such as Lokshen Pudding and Booba’s Vanilla Biscuits. The cultural or religious significance of certain foods is explained and dishes suitable for every Jewish festival are recommended.

AUTHOR INFORMATION:

Denise Philips is a professional chef, who trained with renowned restaurateur Prue Leith before setting up a successful catering business. Building on the success of her `hands-on’ cookery demonstrations all over the country, Denise has now established herself as the leading name in modern Kosher stylish cooking. She is the author of Modern Jewish Food with Style (UK) and the Book of Jewish Cooking (USA). In addition, Denise writes regular cookery columns for Jewish newspapers from London to Toronto and New York, broadcasts on the radio (including Shalom FM), lectures at charity and other events in the UK and teaches in London at her own Cookery school and also in New York at the Institute of Culinary Education, the Sephardic Centre, Brooklyn and the JCC – the Jewish Community Centre.