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offers instructions for cultivating a
biblical garden and cooking with bib-
lical plants, all to help us incorporate
religion into our daily lives.
"What is a Jewish garden?" writes
the author. "Though it is essentially a
collection of plants, it's really more
than that. You don't just grow plants in
a Jewish garden; you incorporate them
into your life. Some will help transport
you•to different times and places; oth-
ers will provide your senses
with aromas, tastes and beauty.
All will help you experience a
more personal attachment to
God and to Judaism."

Between The Pages

Just in time for Tu B'Shevat - and
other Jewish holidays — comes The
Jewish Gardening Cookbook: Growing
Plants 6 Cooking for Holidays Festi-
vals (Jewish Lights Publishing;
$21.95), a book replete with vegetari-
an recipes and spiritual answers to the
question, "What is a Jewish garden?"
Author Michael Brown, an experi-
enced gardener in both the United
States and
Israel, uses bib-
lical and rab-
binical insight
to relate tradi-
— David Sachs
tional foods to
Jewish holi-
days, rituals
Hanging Around
and life-cycle
Israel's art world has never
events.
known anything like it. On one
"Forget
recent Saturday, 3,683 people from
corned beef,
all walks of life lined up for three
r
lox and
hours in the rain outside the Israel
bagels, " says
Museum to see an intoxicating
Rabbi
exhibition of 20th-century art that
Lawrence A.
has attracted a record 150,000 pay-
Hoffman, pro-
ing customers over three months.
fessor of litur-
The show, celebrated as "The
gy at Hebrew
Joy of Color," will go down as one of
Union College, of The Jewish Garden-
the few unalloyed successes among
ing Cookbook. "Here is a sampling of
Israel's 50th anniversary events. It is
real Jewish food: the stuff our ances-
the first — and probably last — pub-
tors ate in biblical days."
lic display of a private collection previ-
Among the interesting information
ously known only to family, friends,
in the book is an explanation of the
art historians and envious curators.
shivat haminim — the seven species
Its 136 works normally decorate
outlined in Deuteronomy 8:7 10.
the Swiss home of Werner and
Figs, wheat, barley, pomegranates,
Gabrielle Merzbacher, who have accu-
olives, grapes and honey illustrate the
mulated the multimillion-dollar col-
fertility of the Land of Israel. To
lection piece-by-piece over 30 years.
ancient Jews, figs symbolized prosperi-
They bought things they liked. And
ty, grapes signified fertility and olives
what they liked, with a consuming
represented the renewal of life. Barley
passion, was what the Jerusalem exhi-
was the chief cooking staple and dates
bition's curator, Stephanie Rachum,
were a honey substitute.
calls "the powerful, dynamic forms
The unique aspect of this book is
and bold colors of artists such as
its linking of the growing and cooking
Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig
of food to Jewish holidays. For exam-
Kirchner and Franz Marc."
ple, it explains how to grow apples to
Werner Merzbacher, a German-
bake apple-raisin-nut cake at Rosh
born Holocaust survivor who made his--- \
Hashanah, potatoes for latkes at
fortune in the fur trade and is celebrat-
Chanukah and ways to maximize use
ing his 70th birthday this year, lent the
of the zucchini crop with zucchini-nut
collection as his contribution to Israel's
bread at Purim.
jubilee. He says he misses it so much
In addition to foods for Tu B'She-
that he fills his house with flowers
vat, recipes are provided for Passover,
twice a week to bring back the colors.
Shavuot, Yom Ha-atzma'ut, Sukkot
The exhibition, which closes at the
and Shabbat,
end of this month, ranges from a
The Jewish Gardening Cookbook

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