Fast & Festive Meals for the Jewish Holidays: Complete Menus, Rituals, and Party-Planning Ideas for Every Holiday of the Year

by Marlene Sorosky

Book Overview

Marlene Sorosky, America's favorite party planner and James Beard Award-winning author of Entertaining on the Run, makes the Jewish holidays come alive with simple, festive menus providing nearly 150 recipes and essential prayers and rituals that make it easy for home cooks to celebrate all year round. From Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Hanukkah to the Sabbath, Passover, and celebrations, including the Bar Mitzvah, each holiday chapter contains...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688145701
• ISBN13: 9780688145705
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A Converts' culinary guide to Judaism

Last year my sister gave me Fast and Festive Meal..as a Chanakah gift as I was converting to Judaism and had little knowledge of how to cook jewishly. This book is absolutely amazing. Wonderful meal suggestions that have allowed me to incorporate Jewish eating into my new life as a Jew with the attendant rituals. What I find most attractive are her suggestions on the timing of preparations and the possibilities for freezing. L'année passée ma soeur m'a donné comme cadeau de Hanoucca, Fast and Festive Meals car j'étais en train de me convertir au Judaisme. J'avais besoin d'un guide pour cuisiner en juif Ce livre m'a permis d'incorporer la cuisine juive dans ma vie de tous les jours et ceci avec les rituels prescripts. Ce que je trouve des plus intéressants sont ses suggestions pour l'horaire de la préparations et les possibilités pour la congelation.

Outstanding authentic recipes!

I was skeptical that this cookbook could deliver, but it does! I have made many of these recipes and complete menus, and everything has obviously been tested repeatedly; each recipe is a winner! I have gotten many compliments over these dishes. Best of all, I am able to entertain with two small children by following her timelines and preparing in advance. This has become a favorite cookbook of mine for all Jewish holidays.

Great Holiday Recipes

I love this cookbook. One of my favorite recipes from this cookbook is the recipe for Gefilte Fish Mousse. It is a very tasty and unusual way to serve gefilte fish. If you get this cookbook, try that recipe. Its great! I enjoyed the whole cookbook. Let's admit holidays and cooking go hand in hand. Who can think of purim without thinking about eating Hamantashen. Read this book if you want to make you Jewish Holidays more special and tasty.

Delicious Knowledge; Recipe for Being

Since other reviewers have already praised this book for its purposefulness, this reader wants to speak of its other qualities. By presenting its recipes within the context of a religious culture this book deserves a place on the reference shelf as well as the kitchen. Its knowledge is, thus, doubly delicious. And the candor of the introduction, speaking of the author's having to deal with a conflict of Faith, is a recipe for being; it's grace, suggestive of literature, whets one's appetite for Marlene Sorosky's own story. It is more than surprising, but gratifying, for a cook book to give a real taste of poetry, honesty, intimacy, loving, depth, openness, wit.

A Never-Miss Book!

My copy of this great book is spattered, tattered and all else that a well-used and better-loved cookbook should be! I have tried nearly all the recipes and NONE of them has not been fabulous. (Should I say, they have all been wonderful!) People ask for the recipes all the time. What a great commentary! Would that all cookbooks were so easy, creative, and fail-safe! Naturally, with recipesthis good, I don't just use them for Jewish holidays!