Wonderful recipes, great menu plans, and amazing photos! The bread machine challah recipe is the best I have ever tried. This would be a thoughtful hostess, housewarming, or bridal shower gift as well.
Excellent cookbook, with some minor issues:
I don't own this cookbook myself--my boyfriend's mother does, and I cook out of it sometimes when I'm at their home for Shabbat and I'm doing the cooking. I don't think it would be practical for day to day cooking for me at the moment: I'm a graduate student, and I don't think I would be able to eat my way through six servings of pomegranate chicken before it spoiled. However, for family cooking, I think this book is excellent and everything I've made out of it has been met with great enthusiasm. Some... more info
excellent:
one of the best cookbooks ever - great recipes that taste amazing and look pretty. all levels of difficulty. recomend to everyone.
Not really one for us goyim:
Reading Kosher By Design brings home a subtle distinction between Jewish food and Kosher food. The latter is the traditional food of Jews as was prepared in their ancestral homelands; the former is food prepared according to Jewish law. This is important, because Kosher By Design is about the latter. As a foodie who was raised Catholic and now identifies as atheist, this is going to color my perceptions of the book substantially. Most of the recipes in this book are the sorts of things that can be... more info
