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| Size | | Length: | 370 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 11.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Essentially the book is a string of family stories tied together by Ehrlich's recurrent theme--her fear that she lacks the stamina, the will, the conviction to keep a kosher home like Miriam. Some of the stories are more interesting than others. Many are poignant...Despite the infelicities of style, there is much to learn from this collage..."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Jeannette Ferrary (08/31/1997)
"The recipes, which are interspersed among the chapters, provide a spare and sonnet-like coda to the story of Ehrlich's developing relationship with the dutiful and seraphic Miriam, who is at once a Gracie Allen figure and a paradoxical Zen master....The stories of Elizabeth and Miriam's encounters, and the memories that they draw forth, are a celebration of everyday life....Ehrlich records all of this in spare, measured prose: she both sidesteps the overwrought emotionality of a Holocaust hagiography and the routine long-windedness of most food writing."
New York Times Book Review - Peter Kaminsky (10/19/1997)
"An appealing, sensitive account of an assimilated Jewish woman's efforts to embrace the religious traditions of her ancestors....[M]uch more than one woman's journey to spiritual fulfillment. It is a savory stew made from the social and cultural ingredients of American-Jewish life."
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