"Miriam's Kitchen" is a wonderful melange of memory and mirth, culture and food--a Jewish "Like Water for Chocolate". At the core is the author's mother-in-law, Miriam, a Holocaust survivor who passionately carries out the traditions she learned as a girl. "Miriam's Kitchen" is an exhilaratingly sensuous book that makes you hunger for things of the spirit as well as for old-fashioned food on a plate.
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"Miriam's Kitchen" is a wonderful melange of memory and mirth, culture and food--a Jewish "Like Water for Chocolate". At the core is the author's mother-in-law, Miriam, a Holocaust survivor who passionately carries out the traditions she learned as a girl. "Miriam's Kitchen" is an exhilaratingly sensuous book that makes you hunger for things of the spirit as well as for old-fashioned food on a plate.
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Miriam's Kitchen is a warm memoir about the family history of the author, focusing on her mother-in-law Miriam, a Polish survivor of the holocaust. In Miriam's kitchen, the author learns how to prepare kosher meals like her mother-in-law, while struggling with her own decision of whether or not to make HER kitchen kosher, honoring her ancestors. The author also includes the recipes she learns in her mother-in-law's kitchen, so the book is a well-crafted memoir, the author's struggle for her Jewish identity, and a cache of savored and savory recipes.
Some of the chapters are brief enough to be short stories themselves, allowing the "short story" to stand alone as a wonderful tidbit of Jewish kitchen lore, as in the chapter on baked apples. Elizabeth Ehrlich also uses wonderfully descriptive language, so I felt I was in the kitchen with her and Miriam. Some of the passages are very touching, especially those her mother-in-law describes about her life in Poland during WWII.
As an avid cook and reader, a writer, and a Jew, I found the book inspiring, touching, and memorable. The library copy I borrowed has been exchanged for my own copy to reread and mark the passages I love and to try dome of the recipes in my own kitchen.
