Often referred to as "the godmother of Jewish cooking," award-winning author and food writer Joan Nathan recently released her 12th cookbook, "My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories" (Knopf).

The show is geared toward seasoned home cooks looking to steal a few trade secrets and people who miss their grandmother’s ...

The Jewish holiday of Passover comes with a number of food restrictions, the most famous of which is no leavened bread. But (kosher) meat? That’s fair game — unless you are vegetarian or vegan. Some ...

Jewish Italian chef and cooking teacher Silvia Nacamulli doesn’t believe in keeping particular recipes in the family, and as she collects the vegetables for eggplant Parmigiana or fried matzo fritters ...

I hadn't finished a sentence when Alice Stern interrupted. "Is she married? Who is she? I have a son who's not married... " Is there any doubt? The Chronicle had landed a classic Jewish mother for our ...

It’s not just chopped liver. Wherever they settled, Jews, like today’s immigrants worldwide, adapted their cooking to the region. After poring over four new Jewish cookbooks in the last few weeks, I ...

Usually libraries discourage visitors from eating food, but at the “Bread and Salt” Jewish Cooking Contest, intricate dishes filled up an entire library conference room. Tuesday’s event, organized by ...

In the cookbook collection of nearly every Jewish family sits a sincere yet amateur plastic-ring-bound volume of recipes. A group of women known as the Monday Morning Cooking Club has adopted this ...

With a taste of just a single dish from a Jewish family's table at Passover, Joan Nathan can tell a global story. The Jewish cooking legend, who has nearly a dozen books to her name, has documented ...