Download or read book The Joys of Jewish Cooking written by Ethel Longstreet and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1988 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a kosher cookbook though many of the recipes are kosher. There is an extensive introduction with historical information on Jewish food, kosherness, ethnic and national variations in Jewish food practices throughout the Diaspora and the reasons for them, the Pale of settlement, holidays and holiday foods, health aspects of traditionally Jewish foods, holiday fasting, etc. Chapters are divided by country then further divided into the categories of meat, fowl, fish, soup, vegetables, dessert, and sometimes wine.