Arts & Entertainment People Of The Books from page C27 Jeff Rovin, who has written books, comics and TV shows. In Goldie's Lox and the Three Bagels: Fractured Jewish Fairy Tales (Citadel Publishing; $14.95), the author brings his sense of humor to some classics. For the Traveler Peter Greenberg, travel editor For the Today show, gives plenty of advice in The Complete Travel Detective Bible (Rodale; $17.95). The author covers reservations, packing, credit card rights and so much more. Fifty-one wineries — and the wine country that sur- rounds them — are described through text and pictures in From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries (Ann Arbor Media Group; $34.95). Authors Sharon Kegerreis and Lorri Hathaway, who grew up in northern Michigan, promote this tasty industry. For the Brainiac: Author Jonah Lehrer explores paths to knowledge in Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Houghton Mifflin; $24). Lehrer contends — with examples — that artists have shown essential truths about the mind way before the scientists got there. For the Linguist Margalit Fox goes to a remote Middle East village where everyone knows sign language and reports her experi- ences in Talking Hands (Simon & Schuster; $27). Joined by four linguists, she reports on the language instinct. For the Word Lover Splitsville, webinar and darknet are among the 2,500 new words found in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press; $175). Each entry follows the format featuring various meanings, origins, part of speech, pronunciation and combinations with other words. For the Yiddishist Just Say Nu (St Martin's Press; $23.95), by Born to Kvetch author Michael Wex, points out colorful phrases and con- versation extenders — all with a Yiddish focus. The idea is to make Yiddish part of everyday talk. Janet Perr explains the definitions of Yiddish words with comical canine images in Yiddish for Dogs (Hyperion; $14.95). From chutzpah to kibbitz, there's a dog to show the way to understanding. For the Dog Lover The discipline — and hopefully comedy — of How to Raise a Jewish Dog (Little, Brown; $12.99) comes from the fictitious rabbis of the Boca Raton Theological Seminary. Authors Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman cover the usual dog-training sub- jects in unusual ways. For the Sports Fan Jewish News columnist George Cantor adds to his list of published books with I Remember Bo: Memories of Michigan's Legendary Coach (Triumph Publishing; $22.95). Vintage Bo, a commemorative DVD, accompanies the biography of Bo Shembechler. For the Nonagerian Actor Kirk Douglas recently celebrated his 90th birthday and ponders life in Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving and Learning (Wiley; $22.95). He tells about experiences with family and friends — many very famous. For the Self Helper Comedian Joy Behar gives celebrity secrets for getting out of slumps in When You Need a Lift But Don't Want to Eat Chocolate, Pay a Shrink or Drink a Bottle of Gin (Random House;$17.95). Richard Lewis, David Brenner and Jerry Herman are among the heavy lifters. Actor Charles Grodin — with friends and friends of friends — points out how to learn from errors in If I Only Knew Then ... Learning from Our Mistakes (Springboard Press; $24.99). Celebrity confessions become essays by Alan Alda, Peter Falk, Paul Newman, Ben Stiller and many more. - BoOks For - Foodip, "Tell me I can have any three ingredients to cook with, and I guarantee that two of them will be garlic and olive oil, and the third will be a vegetable," writes Martha Rose Shulman in Mediterranean Harvest: Vegetarian Recipes From the World's Healthiest Cuisine (Rodale Books; $39.95). The author provides cooks with more than 500 dishes from her extensive travels in Spain, France, Italy, the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa. Vegetarians will find 100 more recipes to savor - most published for the first time - in The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without (Hyperion; $22.95), by Mollie Katzen, author of the Moosewood Cookbook. Covering many special occasions for dining, chef and teacher Myra Kornfeld makes use of whole grains, high-quality fats, natural sugars and an abundance of seasonal produce in The Healthy Hedonist Holidays: A Year of Multicultural Vegetarian-Friendly Holiday Feasts. "Even if you're not Chinese, how celebratory it is to have a Chinese New Year's Feast, and what an opportunity to learn about a festival," Kornfeld notes. "You may not be Jewish, but what fun it is to have a latke party." Released to coincide with her new Food Network tele- vision series of the same name, Nigella Express: 130 Recipes for Good Food, Fast (Hyperion; $35) is British Jewish author Nigella Lawson's tome for cooks on the go who want to still eat well, even when time is short. Recipes all fit on one page, opposite a full-color photo. "However little time or effort I can expend on the day's supper, I have to know it will deliver nothing less C28 November 29 • 2007 than pure pleasure," writes Lawson. As chef of the New York restaurant Jams, Jonathan Waxman helped invent contemporary American cuisine and served as a mentor to many of today's premier chefs. His first cookbook, A Great American Cook: Recipes From the Home Kitchen of One of Our Most Influential Cooks (Houghton Mifflin; $35), presents his dishes the way he makes them at home - though definitely not a kosher home. "OK, I love bacon (and, yeah, I'm from a Jewish household)," he writes. Leaving no Jewish food unturned is Judy Bart Kancigor, whose Cooking Jewish: 532 Great Recipes from the Rabinowitz Family (Workman; $19.95) mixes five generations of traditional and untraditional reci- pes with 160 warm stories of her family. The author, who appeared at this month's Jewish Book Fair, writes: "This is not the definitive book on authentic Jewish cooking. This is a slice of life, as it were, a portrait of one family, warts and all, how we live and how we cook." A slow cooker can be the key for stress-free cooking for a large group. In Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker: Recipes for Entertaining (Harvard Common Press; $18.95), authors Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann detail 300 contemporary and classic recipes using fresh and wholesome ingredients from a wide variety of American and world cuisines. Check out the book's recipe for cholent with an Argentine twist. "I love the new book by George Germon and Johanne Killeen called On Top of Spaghetti (William Morrow; $24.95)," says The Barefoot Contessa's Ina Garten. The authors, chef-owners of the Al Forno restaurant in Providence, R.I., offer their experience cook- ing pasta in Italy, in their restaurant and at home with a collection of innovative pasta recipes. THE VI.TRANIETAISOLISM COlIKROIJK 1 . ..NIGELLA EXPRH, flit HEALY HY HE DON +ST HOCi DAYS • ter MEDITERRANEAN HA Your Moth. Siow Cooke: ,, 7111f "t!.7 for Moms with kids who hate their veggies REAS A _IEV /SA should check out Jessica Seinfeld's Mid(' osher Deceptively Delicious: Simple A Great America Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food (Collins; $24.95). The author hides pureed vegetables and other healthful ingredients - "food that my kids wouldn't touch in their natural form" - in kid-pleasing dishes including macaroni and cheese, chicken nug- gets and burgers. Low-fat brownies with carrots and ■ 1111. 11:l 1 4 'it:.