Toast
by Nigel Slater | 
Tender at the Bone
by Ruth Reichl | 
Love, Loss, and What We Ate
by Padma Lakshmi | 
Comfort Me with Apples
by Ruth Reichl | 
Born Round
by Frank Bruni | 
The Apprentice
by Jacques Pepin | 
The Tenth Muse
by Judith Jones |
The Jew Store
by Stella Suberman | 
The Language of Baklava
by Diana Abu-Jaber |
Stuffed
by Patricia Volk |
Climbing the Mango Trees
by Madhur Jaffrey | 
Save Me the Plums
by Ruth Reichl |
Give a Girl a Knife
by Amy Thielen | 
Blue Plate Special
by Kate Christensen | 
Life From Scratch
by Sasha Martin | 
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi | 
Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom | 
Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah | 
Educated
by Tara Westover | 
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls |
Like many Jewish Americans, Elizabeth Ehrlich was ambivalent about her background. She identified with Jewish cultural attitudes, but not with the institutions; she had fond memories of her Jewish grandmothers, but she found their religious practices irrelevant to her life. It wasn't until she entered the kitchen--and world--of her mother-in-law, Miriam, a Holocaust survivor, that Ehrlich began to understand the importance of preserving the traditions of the past. As Ehrlich looks on, Miriam methodically and lovingly prepares countless kosher meals while relating the often painful stories of her life in Poland and her immigration to America. These stories trigger a kind of religious awakening in Ehrlich, who--as she moves tentatively toward reclaiming the heritage she rejected as a young woman--gains a new appreciation of life?s possibilities, choices, and limitations.