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Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: From the Jewish Heartland Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterEllen F. Steinberg and Jack H. Prost’s From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways , coming from University… Naomi Firestone-Teeter May 6, 2011
Essay Turkish Coffee for the Crown Prince Earlier this week, Reyna Simnegar, the author of Persian Food from the Non-Persian Bride: And Other Sephardic Kosher Recipes You Will Love, wrote… Reyna Simnegar March 18, 2011
Essay Miss Venezuela Material On Monday, Reyna Simnegar, the author of Persian Food from the Non-Persian Bride: And Other Sephardic Kosher Recipes You Will Love, wrote about Sephardim… Reyna Simnegar March 16, 2011
Essay Sephardim Strike Back! Reyna Simnegar is the author of the recently published Persian Food from the Non-persian Bride: And Other Sephardic Kosher Recipes You Will Love. She will be… Reyna Simnegar March 14, 2011
Essay Making Kosher Food Is an All-Night Affair Earlier this week, Sue Fishkoff wrote about watching a goat slaughtered and people who only keep kosher on holidays. She is the author… Sue Fishkoff November 5, 2010
Essay Getting Close to Your Food is Harder When Meat is Involved On Monday, Sue Fishkoff wrote about people who only keep kosher on holidays. She is the author of Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food… Sue Fishkoff November 3, 2010
Essay The Allure of Kosher Food for the Jewish Holidays Sue Fishkoff is the author of Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority. She will be blogging all week for… Sue Fishkoff November 1, 2010
Essay Hungry for Hungary Posted by Dani CrickmanToday marks one week until our Twitter Book Club with Julie Orringer, author of The Invisible Bridge. The book is full of all sorts of… Dani Crickman October 19, 2010
Essay The Good, The Bad and the Delicious Earlier this week Stacey Ballis wrote about Rosh Hashanah cooking and fasting on Yom Kippur for the Visiting Scribe. Her newest… Stacey Ballis September 3, 2010
Essay Why Do They Call it Fasting When it Goes SO SLOW? On Monday, Stacey Ballis wrote about Rosh Hashanah cooking. Her newest book, Good Enough to Eat, is now available.As I mentioned before, my Judaism,… Stacey Ballis September 1, 2010
Essay A Sweet New Year Stacey Ballis‘ newest book, Good Enough to Eat, will be available September 7th. Check back all week for more delicious posts from Stacey for the Jewish Book… Stacey Ballis August 30, 2010
Essay Jerusalem, 1995 – 1996: Eating Standing Up On Monday, Assaf Gavron wrote about moonlighting as an Israeli mover in New York City. His most recent book, Almost Dead, is now available. He’s blogging… Assaf Gavron April 21, 2010
Essay Why Bake Your Own Matzah? In his last post, Rabbi Elie Kaunfer wrote about new models for engaged Jewish life. He’ll be blogging all week for Jewish Book… Elie Kaunfer April 8, 2010
Essay Not Kosher Nora Rubel, author of the recently published Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination, will be blogging all week… Nora Rubel March 22, 2010
News Apparently A Lot of People Like Deli? Posted by Libi AdlerPeople are ranting and raving about David Sax’s Save the Deli! I’ll admit, we here at the Jewish Book Council were intrigued as well.But… Libi Adler October 21, 2009
Recommended Reading It’s Coming Soon…JSF on Eating Animals Posted By Naomi Firestone-TeeterJonathan Safran Foer‘s newest book Eating Animals will be published on November 2nd by Little, Brown and Company. Eating… JBC Staff October 14, 2009
