OUR SOMAYACH DETROIT J ERUSALEM ISION E-KNOWLEDGE NETWORK INVITES YOU TO ATTEND A LIVE INTERACTIVE VIDEO CONFERENCE hood has been difficult, she said. "I've never made much money as a writer or an academic," she laments, though she's hopeful that a new novel she's started, about two emotionally entwined sisters, will be her commercial breakthrough. Though Eve hates therapy, Nicole admits to being in therapy "endlessly ... dealing with mostly first-daughter stuff — wanting desperately to please my parents, being overly critical of myself, not thinking I've achieved enough." She concedes that several of the dynamic women characters in her novel were based on actual family members and is proud she had such strong female role models. At the end of Redeeming Eve, realizing how much Maxie loves her, Eve fi.,,gives her mother for her eccentricities. These days Nicole also seems to feel liberated from mother/daughter struggles. My mother worries more than I do, but she had kids much sooner than I did, in her early 20s. And I have sons, which might be easier." She feels gratitude that her mother always told her she could be anything in life that she wanted. "I remember when I was a cheerleader at Great Neck North High School — I didn't yet realize cheerleading wasn't a feminist thing to do — and some girl made fun of me. My mother said, 'They're just jealous because you're prettier and smarter. Added Bokat half-seriously: "She was rooting for me so much it made me nervous. 171 More For Mother's Day If happy Mother's Day remembrances include wonderful ethnic meals served with love, two recently released books can extend those happy feelings — A Culinary Collection (Wayne State University Press; $24.95), a cookbook from the Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Molly Goldberg Jewish Cookbook (Ivyland Books; $12.95), a soft- cover reprint of a 1955 collec- tion by Gertrude Berg with Myra Waldo. Many Jewish DIA volunteers contributed to A Culinary Collection, which also includes favorites of Detroiters representing other ethnic groups. It has the bonus of color- ful and relevant repro- ductions of beautiful art from the museum. The page that has, Lois Singer's recipe for bundt noodle kugel and cottage cheese pancakes offered by Dede Feldman is opposite A Banquet in the Open Air, a fourth-century Roman scene made of rth.rble, glass and terra cotta. "This is our second cookbook," says Jane Solomon, who con- tributed a recipe for minestrone soup and served as co-chair of the Cookbook Committee. "We tested each recipe." Joyce Siegel, who presented her mother's mandelbrot recipe and was an assistant chair of the testing com- mittee, thinks the interest in this book shows that people are very interested in ethnic cooking. "I think the recipes are timely and the pic- tures show many recent museum acquisitions," Siegel says. "I've tried all the recipes and enjoyed the Jewish ones in every section." Rosalind Grand, a longtime museum docent who offered a version of vegetable lentil soup, advises that many of the recipes that are not from kosher kitchens could easily be adapted. She parti..:ularly enjoyed the tropical salad. "The only disap- pointment was not being able to include more of the recipes we tested," Grand says. In the Molly Goldberg book, there are more Old-World recipes. The title comes from the character Berg played in the sitcom The Goldberos, and the pen- and-inkedrawings recall some of the other char- acters. Readers will find ptcha (calf's foot soup and jelly), cheese knishes and meatless holishkes (stuffed cabbage) along with more common favorites, such as varia- tions of stew, meat loaf and baked veal chops. 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