We smiled all the way through The Brisket Book as we did all the way through our conversation with author Stephanie Pierson. Who is your target audience? People who know or want to know about brisket, or love brisket, and all who are seeking brisket bliss. What is the focus of the book? The book...

KosherEye Giveaway The Brisket Book: A Love Story with Recipes Encore! Encore! An encore giveaway for this very popular cookbook. Enter to win a copy of The Brisket Book: A Love Story with Recipes by Stephanie Pierson. The book is entertaining, informative and a welcome addition to anyone's...

by Margolin Hebrew Academy Memphis, Tennessee, is the home of Elvis, BBQ, the blues and Margolin Hebrew Academy − the only Orthodox Day School in this Southern city. The Jewish Day School was founded in 1949 and has educated three generations of this family, which includes Dena Wruble, her father,...

Three Generations of Southern Cooking by Virginia Willis Virginia Willis believes that today’s southern cuisine is multi–dimensional. It is built on the foundation of the cooking of those “little ladies in southern small country towns”, one of which is her beloved grandmother, Meme. Chefs and...

We are sharing excerpts from our chat with Virginia Willis, talented writer, chef, food stylist, television producer, cooking teacher and author of Bon Appetit, Y'all. Tell us about your next book. It will be published in late September and is titled Basic to Brilliant Y’all − 150 refined southern...

We are continuing our conversation with Norene Gilletz, author of The New Food Processor Bible: 30th Anniversary Edition. How many cookbooks have you authored? Nine cookbooks! It’s a wonder that I haven’t run out of ideas. However, each of my cookbooks has a different focus and includes different...

by Norene Gilletz The re-issuing and updating of a cookbook, in celebration of its thirty year anniversary, is a testament to both the original book and its author. Especially an author who stays current with culinary trends, listens to the requests and feedback of her readers, and is still very...

We are continuing our conversation with the talented Gloria Kobrin, author of the first kosher cookbook application created for the iPhone & iPad Touch user, Kosher Cookbook. How has the response been to your app?Very good with over 9,000 sold. There are a lot of vegetarian dishes, and we have...

by Gloria Kobrin & APPSolute Media The Kosher Cookbook app is an example of a perfect "shidduch" (match). Take one talented cook/food instructor/food writer (Gloria Kobrin) and one talented techie/ entrepreneur (Alexander Libkind) – arrange an introduction – and kosher cookbooks have gone...

Award Winning Author of Entrée to Judaism What are your favorite kitchen tools? Aside from my Kitchenaid mixer and Processor with the small and large bowl so that I can do different sized batches, my must haves are my Micro-plane zesters, my citrus juice reamer (even though I do have an electric...

Tina Wasserman – Author, Instructor & Kosher Cook Tina Wasserman is a renown cooking instructor, and her book reflects her years of knowledge and experience! She is the author of the popular cookbook Entree to Judaism: A Culinary Exploration of the Jewish Diaspora. This culinary page-turner is...

Author of Persian Food from The Non-Persian Bride Enjoy our chat with Reyna Simnegar – in addition to wonderful kosher Persian recipes, the cookbook includes other kosher Sephardic recipes. Have you always loved to cook?Cooking is a pleasure. Growing up, I would cook with my grandmother and aunts...

by Reyna Simnegar Many believe our path through life is destined – there are no chance encounters – everything happens for a purpose. The vivacious author of our featured cookbook, Persian Food from the Non-persian Bride , has traveled a very interesting path to arrive at her current destination....

How we wish that we could sit back, press a key on our computer and see an categorized, alphabetical index of all of the recipes in all of our cookbooks. We never remember which book has that perfect strawberry salad, cheese quiche, chicken cacciatore and so forth, even though we do have many...

A Winning Superbowl Menu by Jamie Geller Jamie Geller proves that a busy person does not have to spend hours in the kitchen to create a nourishing, fast, delicious, eye appealing meal. In fact, she makes no bones about not being able to even cook when she was a newlywed. This enterprising,...

Recipes and Rituals, Memories and Mitzvahs By Maggie Glezer Two times James Beard award winning author Maggie Glezer is a woman of many hats. While Maggie and her family were living in Tucson, Arizona in the early 90’s, this stay - at - home mom became passionate and obsessed with the science of...

By Anne Byrn Anne Byrn, award-winning food writer and author of the Cake Mix Doctor series cookbooks (over 3.3 million copies in print) has recently published the seventh cookbook in this amazing series – The Cake Mix Doctor Bakes Gluten-Free. In recent years, an awareness of gluten–intolerant...

My Search for Jewish Cooking in France By Joan Nathan Occasionally a cookbook offers both historical perspectives along with equally exciting recipes. Yes, we use the term “exciting” because we consider each cookbook we read an adventure into culinary techniques, foods, and recipes. The new Joan...

by Rose Levy Beranbaum (Scribner/Simon & Schuster) The following Pie Advice and Pie Pointers excerpts are from Rose Levy Beranbaum's cookbook, The Pie and Pastry Bible. Great advice from an accomplished baker equals an outstanding pie! Pie Advice: Do not glaze the top of a pie. Although it will...

The College "Cooking" Road Trip After six successful Kosher by Design series cookbooks, the energetic and creative chef–author, Susie Fishbein, has added a seventh to the series – Teens and 20-Somethings. A very interesting target audience for a cookbook; especially kosher teens and...