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— she refers to her collaborators,
Joanne Neuman and Debbie Shahvar,
Special to the Jewish News
as "gifts" — Mrs. Sorosky steeled her
nerves and embarked on the project.
f cookbook author Marlene
The result is a rich, creative volume
Sorosky, in her childhood home,
that blends sober holiday how-tos and
had decorated the family's Rosh
irrepressible fun, offering lighter and
Hashanah table the whimsical
daringly offbeat versions of traditional
way she does her own today, no one
favorites while outlining all the details
would have been amused.
for a holiday theme party.
"Holidays were not for celebrat-
For an Erev Rosh Hashanah dinner,
ing," recalls the Danville, Calif., resi-
we are told which rituals to perform
dent in the introduction to her new
and which prayers to say in which
book, Fast 6 - Festive Meals for the
order at which time, with text provided
Jewish Holidays (223 pages, William
in both English and phonetic Hebrew.
Morrow & Co.).
Meanwhile, Mrs. Sorosky offers a
In the type of anguished confession
blueprint for a whimsical centerpiece
seldom if ever seen in cookbooks,
in which an
Mrs. Sorosky tells
enormous date-
us her American
walnut cookie in L\
father was a "tyran-
FAST & FESTIVE MEALS
the shape of a
nical" Orthodox
FOR
JEWISH HOUPAYS
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Jew and that her
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flowers, ivy,
German mother
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moss, red and
"bent to his every
green crab apples
religious desire."
and shiny accor-
The couple met
dion-pleated
in Berlin before the
Mylar. Napkin
war; he saved his
rings for the
wife's family from
meal are fash-
"Hitler and literally
ioned with the
plucked two of her
help of dried
cousins from
apples and a
Buchenwald. Yet
gun. Invitations
these tales were
to the dinner, the
dark secrets, off-
author suggests,
limits to the cou-
can be sent or
ple's children.
delivered affixed
Mrs. Sorosky
to little jars of honey decorated with
later learned that her father became
apple-printed fabric.
religious after leaving Germany, "after
Challah kicks off the repast —
seeing the atrocities" of which he
either a raisin challah or, Mrs. Sorosky /
never spoke.
suggests, the "Manna, rom Heaven
At the age of 5 she started reading
Challah," complete with colorful
Genesis with her father — in Hebrew.
candy sprinkles or chocolate non-
Until she was 16 she attended Hebrew
pareils. A salmon gefilte fish goes
school three times a week,,as well as
swiftly from the food processor to the
Sunday school. On Saturday morn-
oven, where it is baked in a casserole
ings, while her friends were at the
and later cut into squares, sans gelatin.
movies, she "sat in synagogue day-
Roast chicken, pilaf, a kugel with
dreaming of the places I'd rather be."
applesauce, carrot coins and the giant
So when her editor asked her to
shofar cookie round out the meal.
write a Jewish holiday cookbook —
Dessert in this case is a traditional `—\
she had written over half a dozen
honey cake, its spicy batter spiked
cookbooks on other themes, with the
with instant coffee.
occasional Chanukah or Passover
Other chapters in the book offer
menu included — she felt such a sense
recipes, rituals and party tips for the
of dread that she could hardly breathe,
entire Jewish year as well as Shabbat,
Judaism comprised "such a trau-
b'nai mitzvah, Havdalah and brit
matic part of my childhood," explains
milah or baby-naming.
the author, now a mother of four
grown children, in the introduction.
Her pre- and post-fast Yom Kippur
dinner menus promise dumplings,
"And I wasn't sure I wanted to revisit
the pain."
bread pudding and exotica such as
Yet with the help of two new
lox-and-cream-cheese pizza and a
spread (for cocktail rye) containing
friends who "both love every aspect of
Judaism and embrace every holiday"
HOLIDAYS on page 183
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