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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.