About this title: "Miriam's Kitchen" is a wonderful melange of memory and mirth, culture and food--a Jewish "Like Water for Chocolate". At the core is the author's mother-in-law, Miriam, a Holocaust survivor who passionately carries out the traditions she learned as a girl. "Miriam's Kitchen" is an exhilaratingly sensuous book that makes you hunger for things of the spirit as well as for old-fashioned food on a plate.
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780140267594ISBN:014026759X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780140267594ISBN:014026759X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1998-09-01
ISBN-13:9780140267594ISBN:014026759X
Description: Good. Good + Condition. Binding tight, pages clean. Top right of spine has small closed tear. Some edge-wear. Previous Owner price erased from front praise page. Price sticker remnant on top right corner of cover. Nice copy! read more
"A memoir written about Mrs. Ehrlich's mother-in-law, Miriam, this book is centered around the theme of the Jewish family. As outsiders, we often give little consideration to Jewish families, except around Christmas (when we try our best to ignore them) and Hanukkah (when we miss them from work or school). We roll our eyes at the "kosher" hotdog commercials and think "really?? Is it THAT important that they have their own hotdogs." If you read this book and continue with that line of thinking, then you haven't really read this book at all. Mrs. Ehrlich discusses all of the elements of a kosher kitchen, from the separation of meat and dairy at preparation to the separation of sponges for clean-up. It's a dedicated lifestyle, not one for the hurried or easily annoyed at inconvenience. She also delves into Miriam's past as a survivor of the Holocaust. Mrs. Ehrlich is a member of the first generation to be born on American soil. Her stories of Nazi Germany are haunting and beautiful, reminding us of the resilience of the human spirit. These are all stories that Miriam relayed to her as she finally assumed her familial post in the kitchen, learning the kosher cooking that she had successfully avoided her entire life. Mrs. Ehrlich includes several kosher recipes, all of them either meat or dairy, but never both. I'm sure they would yield excellent results, but what this book offers is more substantial than food for the stomach alone."
"this book was very informative. It taught me what it means to keep a kosher kitchen and what the sabbath is. It's about a woman's inert responsibility to her family before her and her immediate family to keep the foods and the holy days alive for the next generation. The oly problem i had with this book, was that it kept skipping to when she was young, to being a mother. Since there were alot of relatives in this book, it got just a little confusing. But overall, it wasn't so much a story, as it was a woman coming to terms with her religion."
"I read this book the first time when I was 18 and home from my first term away at college. I picked it up on a whim because it was featured on an endcap at Powell's books. I read it on the dorm cot of the young man I had fallen in love with and eventually would marry. I have read it probably a dozen times since then, including to take my mind of morning sickness in my first pregnancy, and to pass the time during early labor with my second. This book is magical to me in a way that is hard to explain. I cooked the recipes of Ehrlich's immigrant family in the tiny apartment kitchen I shared with my own betrothed, himself named after an Avram who had escaped Russia as a boy in another century. The world she brings to life in these pages feels almost like a part of my own family."
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