For more than 20 years, Levana Kirschenbaum has delighted New Yorkers with her bakery, restaurant, catering business, and cooking classes. Now, for the first time, she shares her kosher recipes and kitchen wisdom with home cooks everywhere. Levana's Table offers 150 recipes that are simple, nutritious, beautifully presented, and 100 percent kosher. Together these dishes form an international mosaic reflecting the author's Moroccan upbringing and other wide-ranging culinary influences and interests: French, Mediterranean, Asian, and vegetarian cooking, as well as her famous desserts, and food for holidays and entertaining.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Down to earth ingredients, a cookbook with personality!:
This is my favorite cookbook ever!!! Everything I've cooked from this book tastes great. With the exception of the short chapter on fancy recipes from her restaurant, the ingredients are very down to earth and not complicated. I love all the personal anecdotes Levana includes. You can just tell this is her passion.
Beautiful, from photo to finish:
This book of enticing recipes and gorgeous photos is a perfect gift for your favorite hostess. Levana is a master chef who is passionate about her work, and it shows. Her elegance and attention to detail are illustrated throughout Levana's Table. In addition to a collection of great recipes, Levana takes you inside her world of presentation and entertaining. She offers thoughtful tips and advice throughout. The target audience for Levana's Table is Kosher, yet Levana herself follows a mostly dairy-free... more info
Excellent kosher cookbook.:
I have to say that this book has to be one of the top kosher cookbooks. So far I only tried one recipe, which happened to be marinated steak for the grill, which was unbelievable. My guests could not stop raving about it. I imagine that most of the other recipes should follow suit. I noticed a trend with her recipes, to include green peppercorns and/or saffron. Green peppercorns, could be found at most gourmet shops, but when she calls for green peppercorns in brine, I have yet to see where that exists. I'm... more info
Healthy, Easy and Simply Delicious:
During a summer picnic someone advised me to buy Levana's cookbook. Since I bought this cookbook I don't look anymore at others. I also follow her cooking classes at Lincoln Square Synagogue and they are too good to be true. She makes healthy dishes which are very easy to make and simply delicious as well. I was always a bit insecure about cooking since often recipes didn't turn out like they should. Not with levana's recipes; they work. It really makes me happy to see that my dishes turn out so well.... more info
