Judy Bart Kancigor - Cooking Jewish: 532 great recipes from the Rabinowitz familya

BY JUDY BART KANCIGOR

WORKMAN PUBLISHING NEW YORK

Copyright 1999, 2003, 2007 by Judy Bart Kancigor

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eISBN 9780761159650

Cover and book design by Lisa Hollander
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In Memoriam

In loving memory of my dad, Jan Bart
My grandparents, Hinda and Harry Rabinowitz
Irene Rosenthal
Mac Rosenthal
Sally Bower
Lou Bower
Estelle Robbins
Willy Robbins
Al Robbins
Shirley Robbins
Morris Robbins
Sylvia Robbins
Hilda Robbins
Harold Dubin

With love and gratitude to my mother, Lillian Bart

Every daughter deserves a mother like you!

Just saying thank you doesnt begin to express the overwhelming gratitude I feel toward the hundreds of people who cooked for me, ransacked their photo albums for me, answered my endless questions, and cheered me on (and also humored me through my neurotic obsessions!) during this four-year adventure of expanding Melting Pot Memories, my self-published love letter to my family, into the book you have before you.

Thanks first to the Workman familyand they truly are a familywith Peter Workman, the wise and visionary patriarch heading this awesome and talented tribe. To be published at all is a writers dream; to be published by Workman is an astounding honor. (Steven Raichlen said it best: Do you realize, Judy, that youve just won the lottery?!!)

To my editor, Suzanne Rafer, respected advisor, savvy collaborator, and sensitive friend: Into your capable hands I entrusted my baby, and in return you shared your wisdom, experience, compassion, and wit. Thanks for somehow extracting bursts of creativity I never knew were in me, and for letting me break one heck of a lot of rules. Thanks also to Ann ffolliott for your editorial assistance and to Helen Rosner, for answering every request with haste and good cheer. Kudos to production editor Irene Demchyshyn and her proofing elves whose job it is to make me look good. To my copy editor, Kathie Ness, the most detail-oriented person I know, many thanks for saving me from embarrassment. You taught me humility!

To Lisa Hollander, she of the perfect eye, for your brilliant design work. You couldnt have put more heart into this project if it were for your own family. And thanks to your able assistants, Lori Malkin, Dave Riedy, Thea Kennedy, and Kat Millerick. Thanks, too, to Barbara Peragine for all your hard work in getting the design ready for press. And many thanks to Anne Kerman for her great photo help on the cover and Cathy Dorsey for an astounding job on the index.

If a book is published in a forest and no one is there to get out the word, will anybody know about it? Workmans sales team is the best! Many thanks also to my enthusiastic publicity team, especially Ron Longe and Jen Par Neugeboren. I couldnt be in better hands! And special thanks to Jim Eber (blue-eyes) for making the shidduch.

Some things take a village, but this cookbook took the planet! My daily contact with the members of the Jewish Food Mailing List (and its offshoot, Rinaslist) was an invaluable resource. With the click of a mouse, I could lean over my virtual back fence and schmooze with over two thousand Internet neighbors from forty-five countries to solve culinary crises or ask a question about kashrut or Jewish food, cooking history, or traditions. (And you can too! Go to www.jewishfood-list.com .) The information I gleaned from these generous folks could have earned me a degree over the four years I was writing this bookmany of them even volunteered to test recipes for me!but most of all, I treasure the many friendships developed with these giving souls that Ive never even met.

While the recipe testers are included in the list below, I would also like to thank Malkie Altman, Wendy Baker, Ruth Baks, Viviane Barzel, Nancy Berry, Dalia Carmel, Kaye Fox, Carolyn C. Gilboa, Susan Green, Naomi Horowitz, Barbara Kaye, Sharon Kuritsky, Arlene Mathes-Scharf, Marianne Meisels, Jenni Person, Rina Perry, Moshe Reuter, Judy Rin, Judy Sennesh, Sharon Stein, Judy Sobel, Barbara Swasser, Julia Thiele, Liliana Wajnberg, and Maxine Wolfson for their expertise and adviceapologies if Ive forgotten anyone! with a special hug to Brian Mailman, owner and moderator of the list, who continues to astound me with his vast knowledge of cooking and kashrut.

the test of time

With a thousand recipes to test and retest (whittled down over four years to the 532 that follow) I never could have finished without the help of the many e-mail buddies, relatives, and friends (and friends of friends!) listed below. Im blown away by your generosity.

Deena Abraham

Carolyn Arnold

Elaine Asa

Sherill Atkins

Tracey Barrett

Gary Bart

Karina Ramos Bart

Lillian Bart

Al Benner

Rita Berlin

Carolyn Blackman

Harriet Botwin

Robin Kancigor Boyko

Teresa Bransky

Heidi Brown

Sandy Calin

Betsy Cheek

Donna Chessen

Ian Choset

Ellyn Clark

Babette Cohen

Brent Cohen

Fredericka Cohen

Leba Cohen

Lilly Kancigor Cohen

Wendy Altman Cohen

Sharon Conway

Cindy Cutler

Linda Daniels

Susan Daoust

Eliane Driessen

Laurence Dubroff

Elena Eder

Monica Engel

Peggy Fallon

Ellen Friedman

Joan Friedman

Glenda Galvan-Garcia

Kim Garden

Ellen Gardner

Doris Gelman

Judy Gelman

Corinne Gibbel

Maury Gibbel

Norene Gilletz

Dede Ginter

Caryn Glasky

Diane Globerman

Lorraine Gold

Susan Goldstein

Debbie Goldwater

Linda Gomberg

Dyan Goodman

Julie Goodman

Linda Gordon

Lois Goren

Marlene Sorosky Gray

Lynn Hamlin

Naomi Horowitz

Jeffrey Janis

Stephanie Kamornick

Shelly Kancigor

Stu Kancigor

Valerie Kanter

Sheilah Kaufman

Joan Kekst

Eva Kilgore

Alyse Kirschen

Barbara Klingsberg

Gloria Kremer

Vicki Krupp

Marylyn Lamstein

Anita Lanner

Jennifer Lerner

Christine Levin

Nancy Levinson

Jessica Levine Levy

Cheryl Liebowitz

Jenna Mackoff

Jodi Orlow Mackoff

Samantha Mackoff

Elyse Mancy

Joyce Marumoto

Susan McNeice

Cathy Mishra

Rene Mosbacher

Cindy Mushet

Marlene Mutzman

Shari Nagy

Taylor Nagy

Helaine Nelson

Jane Peterson

Kathy Pettit

Carla Polakowski

Barbara Queen

Jeanette Ramos

Daryl Robbins

Samra Robbins

Hy Rocklin

Trina Ross

Diane Sachs

Betty Sackler

Virginia Sauer

SueAnn Scheck

Davida Schreiber

Marlene Schwartz-Ehrens

Laura Seligman

Judy Sennesh

Judy Shandling

Barbara Shenson

Pnina Shichor