On The Tube ewish artments &services Norma Jean and Edward Meer Jewish Apartments 6760 West Maple Road West Bloomfield, MI. 48322 Please join with us as we celebrate 35 years of building community! Meer II now open, one bedroom units are now available for you to tour. 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- 0 • Are you battling with your child over food? • Is your child sneaking food? • Is your child gaining too much weight? • Do weight problems run in your family? Management help you and your child. Center for Childhood Weight Management Cooking show teaches Jewish history. AMY SARA CLARK Jewish Telegraphic Agency Call our leasing office at (248) 788-2883 CC W M Food For Thought For more information about classes and locations, call: (248) 855-5112 "Healthy Kids Are Happy Kids" .