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Posted by : Karen Selwyn Amazing Jewish Cookbook
The following review appears in the current issue of GOURMET magazine: "Mark Stark's AMAZING JEWISH COOKBOOK is one book not to be judged by its perfectly hideous ocver. Inside, this collection of roughly 50 Jewish holiday recipes turns out to have two uncommon virtues: it presents real cooking for children without condescension and it puts recipe essentials into pictures (Stark's cartoonish drawings) more effectively than many illustrated cookbooks for adults. The recipes run a remarkably grown-up gamut from chicken soup to cheesecake and include homemade matzo, phyllo triangles with spinach-cheese filling and braided challah. There are occasional hitches (the bagel recipe has a couple of missed cues and no resemblance to my idea of bagel dough) and a few shortcuts of the onion-soup-mix stripe. But most of the time, Stark sticks to the traditional outlines of a dish, expecting some ambition and motivation on the part of users. What age users? I'd say any kid old enough to handle a knife and frying pan and operate appliances (mixer, food processor) under adult supervision." "Season's Readings" Anne Mendelson GOURMET, 12/98
