Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

As sum­mer winds down and we begin to pre­pare for the High Hol­i­days (!), we’ve had some­thing very impor­tant on our minds: food. Thank­ful­ly, this Sep­tem­ber brings with it four new cook­books of par­tic­u­lar appeal to our fel­low mem­bers of the tribe:




Bonus: win a signed copy of Michael Ruhlman’s The Book of Schmaltz, which was pub­lished ear­li­er this month by Lit­tle, Brown + stay tuned for guest blogs from Jamie Geller lat­er this month, whose new cook­book, The Joy of Kosher, will be pub­bing from William Mor­row in October.

Orig­i­nal­ly from Lan­cast­er, Penn­syl­va­nia, Nao­mi Fire­stone-Teeter is the CEO of the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. Pri­or to becom­ing exec­u­tive direc­tor and then CEO, she served as found­ing edi­tor of the JBC web­site and man­ag­ing edi­tor of Jew­ish Book World. Nao­mi sits on the board of Jew­ish Cre­ativ­i­ty International.Naomi was named to the New York Jew­ish Week’s 2019 36 Under 36” and Alge­mein­er’s 2018 list of the 100 peo­ple pos­i­tive­ly influ­enc­ing Jew­ish life and was includ­ed on the Glob­al Jew­ish 100 list by Izzy in 2020. She grad­u­at­ed from Emory Uni­ver­si­ty with degrees in Eng­lish and Art His­to­ry and, in addi­tion, stud­ied at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don. She lives in Brook­lyn with her fam­i­ly.