Very useable, thoughtful basic ashkie recipes that turn out right. Carrot soup is excellent.

Yissish Cusisine: A Gourmet's Approach to Jewish Cooking is a classic kosher cookbook and textbook on the traditional foods of Yiddish-speaking Jewry. It's recipes evoke the spirit and flavor of the Jewish kitchens of Eastern and Central Europe and turn of the century America. Filled with Yiddish folklore, food lore, and period photos as well as historical information about the dishes, this book is a living tribute to the Jewish communities that were destroyed by the Nazis as to the Jewish Immigrants who settled in the United States before WWII ( )