Jewish Cooking Jewish Cooks

by Ramona Koval

This updated, hardback edition of Jewish Cooking Jewish Cooks is a collection of delicious, well-loved, tried and true Jewish recipes from around the world, particularly Europe. It?s also a collection of stories ? all of which revolve, like much of Jewish life and tradition, around the subject of food. From the most simple to the most celebratory Jewish dishes, Ramona Koval presents a thriving, contemporary food culture founded on ancient traditions and laws, that stretched beyond countries and continents. The recipe range from latkes to lox, borscht to blintzes, kugel to cabbage rolls and kompot, with many vegetarian dishes. Rich with anecdotes about what makes Jewish food important to Jewish people, superb images throughout capture the warmth and atmosphere of Jewish kitchens, family gatherings around the table and Jewish life in it?s wider sphere.

196 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2001

About the author

Ramona Koval has made long interviews with significant writers her signature. She is familiar to ABC Radio audiences through her long and varied career on air. Listeners will remember her as the presenter of the RN Drive program and as the morning presenter on Melbourne’s 3LO (now 774 ABC Melbourne) through the late 1980s and early 1990s.

She became a fixture in the literary world after joining ABC Radio National’s Books and Writing in 1994. Ramona now presents The Book Show, introduced by ABC Radio National in 2006 to consolidate its various book programs.

A writer herself, Ramona has published several books, including a novel, Samovar, and a cookbook Jewish Cooking, Jewish Cooks. She has written for many newspapers and international journals, and her interviews have been published in book form. Her latest collection of Radio National interviews is Tasting Life Twice: Conversations with Remarkable Writers, published by ABC Books.

Reviews

[Leah · Rating 3 out of 5]

As always with cookbooks, I enjoy the stories.