Jennifer Katzinger - Gluten-Free and Vegan Holidays: Celebrating the Year with Simple, Satisfying Recipes and Menus

GLUTEN-FREE AND VEGAN Holidays

Celebrating the Year with Simple,
Satisfying Recipes and Menus JENNIFER KATZINGER Author of Flying Aprons Gluten-Free & Vegan Baking Book Copyright 2011 by Jennifer Katzinger
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Cover design: Anna Goldstein
Interior photographs: Kathryn Barnard
Food styling: Patty Wittmann
Interior design: Anna Goldstein and Rosebud Eustace
Interior composition: Anna Goldstein
Interior illustrations: Clipart.com/ 2011 Jupiterimages Corporation Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. ISBN-13: 978-1-57061-696-9
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FOR MY DAUGHTER,
LILLIAN FRANCES AUTHORING A SECOND COOKBOOK is a dream come true! There are so many family members, friends, and colleagues who have nourished within me the courage to follow this path of creative expression that is in such harmony with my sense of purpose and joy. Thank you Joseph. Every step I take in diving into a new project I take surrounded with the absoluteness of your tenderness, strength, and love.

It is because of us that my greatest dreams have come true. Thank you Lilli. Your wisdom, purity, and enthusiasm for great and small inspire me to stretch every day to try out a new perspective. It is my greatest privilege to be your mommy. Thank you Jules and Andy. You both have encouraged me to follow my heart.

That encouragement has been key at such pivotal moments and has provided the space for another cookbook to be written. Thank you Mom for always being a culinary influence and for your beautiful, loving heart. Thank you Malcolm for your guidance, respect, constant openheartedness, and love. Thank you Kathy for your abundant support, friendship, love, and honesty. Thank you Dad for forever being such a source of strength and love and for the example you give in following ones heart. Thank you Jer, Leon, Josh, Sherri, and Caleb for your enthusiasm and family blessings.

Thank you Gabriel! Your friendship is profound! Many thanks to Susan Roxborough for the opportunity, trust, and guidance in creating this delicious book! Thank you Rachelle Long for being such a graceful and wonderful editor. Even your e-mails feel like they come from the hand of an artist. Thank you Diane Sepanski for your ever-so-helpful insights. Many thanks to Kathryn Barnard, whose artistry has truly made this book come to life with such vibrancy. Thank you ever so much Patty Wittmannyour finesse and beautiful style shines in each photograph. Thank you Tess Tabor for your constant enthusiasm.

Thank you Anna Goldsteinyour design expertise will no doubt help each reader follow the recipes with ease. Thank you to everyone at Sasquatch Books who has brought this project to life. It really is a dream come true being able to write cookbooks with such a respected and capable publishing company.

HOLIDAYS FOR ME ARE FILLED WITH expectations, merriment, joy, fuss, and juggling. There is a rather strong side of me that rises up every year and says, Skip it! That says I should keep it simplewhy spend so much energy running around trying to please a number of people when my own soul is craving quiet peace? Why not travel to some beautiful, warm island for the winter holiday season and reemerge when the whole hullabaloo is over? So when Sasquatch Books asked me to do another gluten-free and vegan cookbook, I was absolutely thrilled, but when the subject was to be holiday cooking, I had to face an internal dilemma. I had to resolve the conundrum of my own confused view of the holidays, and I wanted to have authenticity while authoring this cookbook, both for myself and for all of you who are excited by these recipes.

During my childhood, holidays were indeed magical. However, somewhere in my early adulthood a shift took place. Perhaps it was due to my growing awareness of the consumerism and materialism that pervade and overwhelm the holiday seasons as well as the lack of fairly traded and environmentally responsible products. At the same time this new perspective was taking hold, my family was spreading out around the globe, and so it became a physical challenge for all of us to be together for the holidays. While feeling less and less of a connection to the holiday magic I once experienced, I also happened to meet and marry a wonderful man who grew up celebrating holidays I knew very little about. My husband shared a similar disconnect from the holidays, and yet he was also grateful for his traditions and memories.

This left us both somewhat confused about how to move forward, especially as new parents. We both know that we want to create rich, spiritual, magical, and joyful traditions. Do we create new holidays? How do we draw from both of our traditions and make the holidays a reflection of our values, gratitude, and joy? While we are still finding our way, elements of our new path are becoming clearer. One thing that stands out more than anything else for us is that holidays are meant to be spent with people you love, celebrating life together; taking time to stop and appreciate, reflect, give thanks; and sharing merriment, laughter, and beautiful food. While my husband grew up celebrating traditional Jewish holidays, I grew up celebrating traditional Christian ones. In writing this cookbook and creating gluten-free, vegan recipes that reflect and are inspired by the traditional foods and menus these two cultures celebrate, I am indeed in a wonderful culinary and cultural position: my marriage has allowed me to learn firsthand about traditions previously unfamiliar to me.

In these first years of my daughters life, I have been undertaking delicious experiments in the pursuit of developing this holiday celebrations cookbook. As I create culinary traditions for my own family, I share the best ones with you. Since the release of my first cookbook, Flying Aprons Gluten-Free & Vegan Baking Book

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