Joan Nathan’s Jewish Holiday Cookbook

Joan Nathan

2004

Miriam Steinberg of Highland Park, Illinois, would never think of making her weekly challah without first separating some dough, reciting a blessing over it, and then burning it in the oven, in accordance with the biblical commandment. Cyrel Deitsch of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, breaks each egg into a separate bowl to check that there is no drop of…

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Creator Bio

Joan Nathan

b. 1943

Born in Providence, Joan Nathan holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She subsequently worked for Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem. Nathan has published numerous cookbooks, has written for the New York Times, and created a PBS television series, Jewish Cooking in America with Joan Nathan.

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