Best Kosher Cookbooks
Yeshivas Darchei Torah,
From Our Table to Yours,
Cookbook Publishers Inc., 2005. Spiral-bound. 214 pages. 450 recipes.
Proceeds support Yeshivas Darchei Torah, Southfield, Michigan.
Yeshivas Darchei Torah,
From Our Pesach Table to Yours,
G&R Publishing Company, 2005. Spiral-bound. 122 pages. 256 recipes.
Proceeds support Yeshivas Darchei Torah, Southfield, Michigan.
Order from Yeshivas Darchei Torah, 21550 West Twelve Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48076 (248-357-3560) for $15 plus $3 shipping and handling per cookbook.
Some of the best kosher cookbooks are compiled by yeshivot, hebrew day schools, synagogues and other Jewish nonprofit organizations for fundraising purposes. Members of the local community contribute kitchen-tested recipes that have been passed down for generations. These two cookbooks are particularly good examples.
- Susie Fishbein's Kosher by Design series of
cookbooks. See also the Artscroll web site.
- Susie Fishbein,
Kosher by Design Kids in the Kitchen
, Mesorah Publications, November 2005. 192 pages.
- Susie Fishbein, Kosher by Design Short on Time: Fabulous Food Faster, Mesorah Publications, November 2006. Hardcover. 336 pages. This cookbook uses canned or prepared goods to cut preparation time.
- Susie Fishbein, Kosher By Design Entertains: Fabulous Recipes For Parties And Every Day, Mesorah Publications, March 2005. Hardcover. 335 pages. 250 recipes.
- Susie Fishbein, Kosher by Design: Picture Perfect Food for the Holidays and Every Day, Mesorah Publications, May 2003. Hardcover. 304 pages.
- Susie Fishbein,
Kosher by Design Kids in the Kitchen
- Sara Finkel, Classic Kosher Cooking, Simply Delicious, Targum Press, December 2008. Hardcover. 278 pages. 294 recipies. This is a second volume in Sara Finkel's Classic Kosher Cooking series, and not an update of her 1989 Classic Kosher Cooking book. If you liked her first cookbook, you'll love this one, especially if you have a sweet tooth. She continues to use unusual ingredients creatively, such as Sprite or selzer in matzah balls (excellent) and fruit in meat and poultry dishes (very sweet). But some of her recipies are a bit questionable, such as pickled salmon, and her chapter on microwaving doesn't warn you that microwaving fish will permeate the house with a very fishy smell. Recipes include appetizers (20), soups (14), salads (13), poultry (13), meat (21), fish (12), veggies (26), kugels (20), pastry (12), challah (7), delectable desserts (13), cakes (27), cookies (28), pastries (27), microwaving (14) and Passover (27). This cookbook is available from the publisher's web site. It is not yet available from Amazon.
- Gil Marks, Olive Trees and Honey: A Treasury of Vegetarian Recipes from Jewish Communities Around the World, John Wiley & Sons, November 2004. 464 pages. Excellent cookbook for vegetarians.
- Esther Blau, Tzirrel Deitsch and Cherna Light, Spice and Spirit: The Complete Kosher Jewish Cookbook, Lubavitch Women's Cookbook, March 1997. Hardcover. 575 pages. (Updated version of The Spice and Spirit of Kosher Jewish Cooking, August 1977.) Also available from Judaica Press.
- Sharon Lebewohl, Rena Bulkin and Jack Lebewohl, The Second Avenue Deli Cookbook: Recipes and Memories from Abe Lebewohl's Legendary Kitchen, Villard, October 1999. Hardcover. 256 pages. Mix of favorite deli recipes and celebrity recipes.
- Sheryll Bellman, America's Great Delis: Recipes and Traditions from Coast to Coast, Collectors Press, October 2005. Hardcover. 176 pages.
- Rise Routenberg and Barbara Wasser, Divine Kosher Cuisine: Catering to Family and Friends, Congregation Agudat Achim in Niskayuna, New York, March 2006. Spiral-bound. 384 pages. 400 recipes. See also publisher web site at Divine Kosher Cuisine.
- Sara Kasdan, Kathryn Hall and Louis Slobodkin, Love and Knishes: An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking, Alexander Books, December 1997. Paperback. 208 pages.
- Cookbooks by Joan Nathan
- Joan Nathan, Jewish Cooking in America, Knopf, September 1998. Hardcover. 544 pages. 300 recipes.
- Joan Nathan, Joan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook, Schocken, August 2004. Hardcover. 544 pages. 400 recipes.
- Joan Nathan, The Jewish Holiday Kitchen: 250 Recipes from Around the World to Make Your Celebrations Special, Schocken, August 1998. Paperback. 416 pages.
- Laura Frankel, Jewish Cooking For All Seasons: Fresh, Flavorful Kosher Recipes for Holidays and Every Day, Wiley, August 2006. Hardcover. 288 pages.
- Diana Kastenbaum and Penny Brenner, Editors, Kosher Delicious: Great Recipes for Living, Jonathan David Publishers, January 2005. Spiral-bound. 384 pages. 300 recipes.
- Women's League of Adat, Ari El Synagogue, California Kosher: Contemporary and Traditional Jewish Cuisine, Wimmer Cookbooks, December 1991. Spiral-bound. 300 pages.
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