The Joys of Jewish Cooking

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Description

This is not a kosher cookbook though many of the recipes are kosher. There is an extensive introduction with historical information on Jewish food, kosherness, ethnic and national variations in Jewish food practices throughout the Diaspora and the reasons for them, the Pale of settlement, holidays and holiday foods, health aspects of traditionally Jewish foods, holiday fasting, etc. Chapters are divided by country then further divided into the categories of meat, fowl, fish, soup, vegetables, dessert, and sometimes wine.