The healthy Jewish cookbook : 100 delicious recipes from the Mediterranean to Persia, Asia and the Far East /
Michael Van Straten ; recipes by Sally and Michael van Straten ; recipe photography by Jan Baldwin ; location photography by Vanessa Courtier.
- 159 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 x 24 cm
Includes index.
"The Healthy Jewish Cookbook reflects the food of the Diaspora - from the Jews who spread themselves around the rest of the world and developed their own cuisine, unique to the countries they inhabited, but still controlled by Kosher requirements. This book will take you on a journey, following in the footsteps of Jewish travellers. When they jumped off the camel trains on the ancient Silk Route you'll taste the food they cooked. When they jumped ship from the Phoenician galleys trading in ancient Greece you'll enjoy the flavours of the Mediterranean. When Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain expelled the Jews in 1492 they took their traditions of Moorish and north African cooking with them to Italy, South America and Africa. And when they arrived at Ellis Island or Tilbury Docks in the 1930s, you'll savour the flavours of New York and London's East End." "For the first time in a Jewish cookbook, Michael van Straten has sought out recipes made with the best and healthiest of produce, using only small amounts of animal fat and protein. Instead these dishes are filled with grains, nuts, fruits and vegetables, cooked in olive oil - a diet that is increasingly recognised as the optimum for good health." "So here are over 100 recipes , full of flavour, taste and inventiveness, created to reflect the tremendous variety of Jewish food while also following its traditions. They are low in fat, but overflowing with the antioxidant vitamins A, C and E as well as beneficial phytoestrogens and all the protective fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices."--BOOK JACKET.