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dozen cities to produce the series. -
While this makes the show more
expensive to produce, filming in the
ne of the last things Joan
chef's personal kitchen is important,
Nathan wants to do in her
she says, because the series is more
cooking show is teach peo-
about the cooks themselves than the
ple how to cook.
recipes they demonstrate.
Instead, she uses her PBS series,
Jewish Cooking in America is pro-
Jewish Cooking in America, as a
duced by Maryland Public Television.
springboard to teach Jews and non-
The first 13 episodes of the show
Jews alike about Jewish history, tradi-
debuted on public television four
tion and culture. The program airs
years ago, with the second series air-
3:30 p.m. Sundays on
ing this spring.
Detroit Public
While the 'first sea-
Above: Chef Andre Soltner
Television-Channel 56.
son
concentrated on
joins Joan Nathan
"Cooking is a means to on the set of "Jewish
the Jewish holidays,
an end to us," says
the second looks at
Cooking in America."
Nathan, the well-known
how various ethnic
author who has written a
groups have influ-
cookbook by the same name.
enced, and been influenced by, Jewish
cooking.
"I didn't want to just feature tech-
nique. I'm really much more interest-
The episode being taped in the
ed in telling cultural stories," Nathan
Upper West Side apartment, for
told JTA recently while sitting in the
example, shows how Jewish kreplach
dining room of the Manhattan apart-
and Italian capelletti both descended
ment where one of the episodes was
from the Chinese wonton when, as
being taped.
early as the eighth century, silk mer-
As she talked, kreplach were sim-
chants brought the stuffed dumpling
to Europe.
mering one room over in a kitchen
with a green and gray, hand-crafted
Nathan points out that a lot of food
mosaic floor, a Sub-Zero refrigerator
we think of as Jewish is really region-
al.
and a view of Central Park.
Unlike most cooking shows, which
"Jewish food, in many instances, is
are taped on a studio set, each episode geographical, but determined by the
of Jewish Cooking in America is filmed dietary laws," Nathan says. "My fami-
in the guest chef's kitchen, which
ly is German Jewish, so they had a lot
means that Nathan and her produc-
of linzer torte, and this quetsche
kuchen, a blue plum tart; all Alsatians
tion crew have traveled to some half-
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