Seasons or International Cooking for the Kosher Home

Seasons: A Year of Great Tastes

Author: DK Publishing Inc

Enjoy the finest flavors each season with this blend of traditional home-cooking and inspirational ideas where the essence of good cooking is simple, fresh ingredients picked when ripe and naturally in season.

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International Cooking for the Kosher Home

Author: Betty S Goldberg

A stinulating new cookbook featuring exotic dishes from countries as diverse as Tahiti, Peru, Armenia, Mexico, India, Russia, and Japan-to name just a few.

Publishers Weekly

In a carefully prepared and often enticing collection, the author of Chinese Kosher Cooking adapts international dishes to the American palate and to kosher dietary restrictions. Veal (instead of pork) scrapple, chicken Kiev stuffed with pareve margarine seasoned with parsley and dill, and seafood-free paella are typical of recipes avoiding prohibited foods or food combinations. Cooks following kosher guidelines who want to try some new flavors will find much to enjoy in the recipes and in the discussions opening each chapter. From Europe there is cottage cheese ``strudel,'' cream of mushroom soup and broccoli with garlic sauce. Basted herb-and-spice chicken, duck in pomegranate sauce, and nut rolls in honey syrup originate in the Middle East. Asia and the Pacific Islands contribute spicy vegetable fritters, fish marinated in lime and macadamia-nut pie, while the Americas offer fried tortillas with cheese, salmon with cream dressing and hot blueberry pudding. Illustrated. (February)

Library Journal

Goldberg, author of Chinese Kosher Cooking , now tackles global cuisine, and does an admirable job. In sections on Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Islands, and the Americas, she includes international recipes for dishes not usually found in kosher cookbooks. Thoughtful and informed background information is given with each recipe, and while a few dishes seem a bit too Americanized, her kosher adaptations make good sense. Recommended. JS