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Reviewed by Elizabeth Applebaum
AppleTree Editor

Chocolate Chip
Challah and
Other Twists on
the Jewish Holi-
day Table: An
Interactive Family
Cookbook written
and illustrated by Lisa Rauchwerger
(Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations Press, paperback,
$15.95).
This cookbook is absolutely deli-
cious!
Rauchwerger, a professional
artist, includes 40 kosher recipes

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for the Jewish holidays, from Shab-
bat to Passover and everything in-
between. Written especially for
children aged 5-11 and their fami-
lies, anyone of any age who does-
n't like this book is a complete
bonehead!
So what's so great?
First of all, Rauchwerger actually
presents new and fun recipes —
not the same stuff found in almost
every other Jewish cookbook. For
Shavuot, for example, when we
traditionally eat dairy foods, the
author has a very tempting dish
called Sour Cream Apple Spice
Cake. For the pre-Yom <ippur
meal, she provides recipes for a

mandelbread with
when there was a campaign in
both chocolate chips
England to teach people how to
and almonds.
make food go further during the
There also is infor-
time of food rationing."
mation about the hol-
You feel like you're right there in
idays and other
the kitchen with the author and all
aspects of Judaism,
her friends and family. Yummy!
stories about rabbis
and, naturally, great .
One Yellow Daf-
illustrations — all
fodil by David A.
wonderfully presented.
Adler with illustra-
The loving, fascinating and fun
tions by Lloyd
stories that Rauchwerger provides
Bloom. (Voyager
with each dish are the real icing
Books/Harcourt
on the cake. It's not just a recipe
Brace, paperback, $6.)
you get with "Katka's Lemonade
This is a. truly lovely book, the
Concentrate." Rauchwerger notes:
poignant story of a lonely Holo-
"My great-aunt Katka uses lemons
caust survivor who owns a flower
from her own tree in her garden in
shop and the children he meets
Haifa, Israel, to make this delicious
who
him into their home.
drink." Prefacing a recipe for Ver-
- 'Aiork succeeds where
micelli Cheese Pudding, she
so many fail, in large part is
writes, "This recipe comes f r om my
because of its restraint. Other than
friend Leora Troper's grandmother,
- the sound of Barry Manilow's
Janet Miller, in England. It is based
voice
is, perhaps, nothing so
on a recipe she got from the British
irriL;ing
he world as over-
government during World War II,
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