Ronnie Fein - Hip Kosher: 175 Easy-to-Prepare Recipes for Todays Kosher Cooks

Ronnie Feins newest cookbook, Hip Kosher: 175 Easy-to-Prepare Recipes for Todays Kosher Cooks offers creative recipes for the modern kosher family. Fein makes her mark by highlighting the interesting ingredients, and her helpful hints are generously offered in nearly every recipe. Hip Kosher will be a terrific addition to the kitchen of any home-cook!

Jeff Nathan, executive chef of Abigaels on Broadway and Jeff Nathan Events, chef/host of televisions New Jewish Cuisine, and author of Adventures in Jewish Cooking and Jeff Nathans Family Suppers

Ronnie Fein is a well-seasoned cooking teacher and cookbook author, and I am anxious to try all of the recipes in Hip Kosher. The notes and tips she offers on each recipe make the book a great find!

Sally Maraventano, cookbook author, chef/owner of Cucina Casalinga, Regional Italian Cooking School

If you think kosher cooking means hours and hours in the kitchen and heavy, wintry food, think again! Ronnie Fein has a wealth of talent and experience, and she is just plain fun, and so is her food. Its fast, fresh, bright, and summery. This is kosher cooking for everyone who loves good food.

Melanie Barnard, award-winning cookbook author of Marinades: The Secret of Grilling

Hip Kosher offers simple, quick recipes featuring fresh ingredients, making it a welcome addition to anyones cookbook library, whether they cook kosher or not. Helpful guides with regard to kosher cooking are sprinkled throughout the book, and each chapter is chock-full of suggested shortcuts, menu ideas, and other tips.

Austin Chronicle

Hip Kosher features flavors from around the world in simple recipes that are more indicative of todays diverse kosher consumers and ingredients.

The Jewish Week

Fein, a Connecticut-based author, food writer and cooking school director, has a love for flavors and spices from around the world and an eye for what people want to eat today.

Chicago Tribune

The proof that her recipes are easy is in the titles... and its in the recipe directions: most of them are single paragraphs. [Fein] uses all sections of the international foods aisle for this book, yet all the recipes are kosher.

Washington Post

Lots of simple, quick, appealing modern fare can be found in this book relying on supermarket accessible ingredients.

Los Angeles Daily News

Modern kosher-American food in Feins book takes some of the best elements of several cuisines and combines them.

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

If you are new to kosher food or if you are a kosher food veteran who would enjoy a fresh collection of current, delicious and healthy kosher recipes that are easy-to-prepare, then Hip Kosher may make a wonderful addition to your kitchen library.

Giora Shimoni, About.com

Ronnie Fein has been a freelance food and lifestyle writer since 1980. She currently writes regular features for the food and community sections of daily newspapers, including the Advocate and Greenwich Time, which are part of MediaNews-Hearst newspapers; many of these articles appear in other publications throughout the United States and in international editions, as well as online. Ronnie Fein has written articles for Newsday, Cooks Illustrated, Consumers Digest, Connecticut magazine, and many other publications; is the author of two previous cookbooks; and was a contributing editor to The New Cooks Catalogue. She also operates the Ronnie Fein School of Creative Cooking in Stamford, Connecticut, where she lives with her husband. She has two married daughters and three grandchildren.

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A Member of the Perseus Books Group

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Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book and Da Capo Press was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial capital letters.

Copyright 2008 by Ronnie Fein

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Designed by Jeff Williams

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fein, Ronnie.

Hip kosher : 175 easy-to-prepare recipes for todays kosher cooks / Ronnie Fein.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-7867-3219-7

1. Jewish cookery. 2. Cookery, American. 3. Cookery, International. I. Title.

TX724.F3718 2008

641.5973dc22

2007045786

Published by Da Capo Press

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