Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen: 70 Fun Recipes for You and Your Kids, from the Author of Jewish Cooking in America

The recipes are old and new, traditional and novel--everything from hamantashen to pretzel bagels, chicken soup with matzah balls to matzah pizza, fruit kugel to Persian pomegranate punch.

Explains basic cooking techniques and includes easy-to-follow recipes for a variety of traditional dishes for holidays throughout the year. Also includes instructions for related craft projects.

Seventy child-friendly recipes and cooking activities from around the world will draw the entire family into the spirit and fun of preparing Jewish holiday celebrations. Covering the ten major holidays, each of the activities has a different focus—such as Eastern Europe, biblical Israel, contemporary America—and together they present a vast array of foods, flavors, and ideas.

The recipes are old and new, traditional and novel—everything from hamantashen to pretzel bagels, chicken soup with matzah balls to matzah pizza, fruit kugel to Persian pomegranate punch.

Library Journal

Revised from the 1987 edition, The Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen covers Jewish holidays throughout the year. Nathan, author of the acclaimed Jewish Cooking in America (LJ 2/15/94) and an authority on the subject, provides both recipes and ideas for crafts to make with children, as well as religious background on each holiday for teaching them about their heritage. This edition features 20 new recipes and a more inviting format, with 30 new illustrations. Timely and recommended for most collections.

Joan Nathan is the author of several Jewish cookbooks, including The Jewish Holiday Kitchen, The Jewish Holiday Baker, and Jewish Cooking in America, which in 1994 was named Best Cookbook of the Year by the IACP and received the James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and their three children.