My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories

A new cookbook from the best-selling and award-winning author that uses recipes to look back at her life and family history--and at her personal journey discovering Jewish cuisine from around the world 'There is no greater authority on Jewish cooking than Joan Nathan.' --Michael Solomonov, James Beard award-winning chef and author of Zahav Before hummus was available in every grocery store--before shakshuka was a dish on every brunch menu--Joan Nathan taught home cooks how and why they should make these now-beloved staples themselves. Here, in her most personal book yet, the beloved authority on global Jewish cuisine uses recipes to look back at her own family's history-- their arrival in America from Germany; her childhood in postwar New York and Rhode Island; her years in Paris, New York, Israel, and Washington, DC. Nathan shares her story--of marriage, motherhood, and a career as a food writer; of a life well-lived and centered around meals--and she punctuates it with all the foods