Comments on: Read it & Eat: Review of Cooking Jewish http://jcarrot.org/read-it-eat-review-of-cooking-jewish/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:12:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Madeline B. http://jcarrot.org/read-it-eat-review-of-cooking-jewish/#comment-5429 Madeline B. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:40:41 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/read-it-eat-review-of-cooking-jewish/#comment-5429 Jewish recipes are easy to springboard from. If you can't handle the rich, high fat ingredients, you can easily find healthier substitutions. Jewish recipes are easy to springboard from. If you can’t handle the rich, high fat ingredients, you can easily find healthier substitutions.

]]> By: Alix Wall http://jcarrot.org/read-it-eat-review-of-cooking-jewish/#comment-5413 Alix Wall Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:24:52 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/read-it-eat-review-of-cooking-jewish/#comment-5413 Eli, Your review did not surprise me at all. When I was at the Manischewitz cook-off semi-finals in San Francisco http://jcarrot.org/man-oh-manischewitz-is-right/, this was the author who pressed her postcard into my hand. I wrote about it at the time, saying that just reading her kugel recipe almost gave me a heart attack. While at least it called for real cream rather than the artificial stuff like in the recipe you quoted, it called for three cups of the stuff! Not to mention the pears and peaches in heavy syrup. That one recipe alone made me less than interested in the rest of the cookbook. Eli,
Your review did not surprise me at all. When I was at the Manischewitz cook-off semi-finals in San Francisco http://jcarrot.org/man-oh-manischewitz-is-right/,
this was the author who pressed her postcard into my hand. I wrote about it at the time, saying that just reading her kugel recipe almost gave me a heart attack. While at least it called for real cream rather than the artificial stuff like in the recipe you quoted, it called for three cups of the stuff! Not to mention the pears and peaches in heavy syrup. That one recipe alone made me less than interested in the rest of the cookbook.

]]> By: Leah Koenig http://jcarrot.org/read-it-eat-review-of-cooking-jewish/#comment-5412 Leah Koenig Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:51:05 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/read-it-eat-review-of-cooking-jewish/#comment-5412 Great review, Eli! My favorite banana bread recipe calls for a squeeze of lemon juice. The tartness seems to compliment the sweet creamy-ness of the banana, and the bread always seems extra light and fluffy (maybe there's some reaction between the acid in the lemon and the baking powder??) The sweet and sour tvp meatballs sound amazing! Did the tvp hold together? Great review, Eli!

My favorite banana bread recipe calls for a squeeze of lemon juice. The tartness seems to compliment the sweet creamy-ness of the banana, and the bread always seems extra light and fluffy (maybe there’s some reaction between the acid in the lemon and the baking powder??)

The sweet and sour tvp meatballs sound amazing! Did the tvp hold together?

]]> By: Eric Schulmiller http://jcarrot.org/read-it-eat-review-of-cooking-jewish/#comment-5409 Eric Schulmiller Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:36:37 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/read-it-eat-review-of-cooking-jewish/#comment-5409 Looks like a great book. But the grammar snob in me wants to scream (like I did at the "Think Different" Apple commercials), "Where's the "ly?!!" (as in JewishLY) Looks like a great book. But the grammar snob in me wants to scream (like I did at the “Think Different” Apple commercials), “Where’s the “ly?!!” (as in JewishLY)

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