JEWDAR
NON-FICTION / COOKING Taking the challah to another level
MONTREAL has a luncheonette whose existence was inspired by the tastes of one man: Arthur Steinberg. After he died, in 2006, Steinberg’s daughter Raegen was driven to pursue a culinary career in his honour. Working in restaurants led her to meet her future husband; the couple started a catering business that pivoted into Arthurs Nosh Bar in the proto-hipster neighbourhood of Saint-Henri. Their cook- book covers everything the eatery is known for: syrniki pancakes, roasted lamb shoul- der with saffron, and the dafina dish that originated as a Moroccan slow-cooker staple for Shabbat.
ARTHURS: HOME OF THE NOSH
Raegan Steinberg, Alexandre Cohen, and Evelyne Eng Appetite by Random House May 6
FICTION / ROMANCE Foodie serves
NON-FICTION / COOKING Celebrating Harlem’s kosher style
up a taste of chick-lit
A FIXTURE of Toronto food journalism (she re- cently contributed an essay about matzah balls to the anthology What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings) is trying her hand at a beach read. The prem- ise: twenty-something protagonist Ruthie Co- hen’s bubbe’s has left her an inheritance of
BEEJHY BARHANY, owner of the Tsion Cafe in the Sugar Hill neighbourhood of Harlem, was spurred by post-October 7 antisemitic vandalism to se- cure kosher certification for her decade-old New York eatery. Her cookbook includes café menu items like shiro wat, gomen, and injera (chickpea stew, braised collard greens, and fermented teff flatbread, respectively) alongside recipes for Yemeni pancakes and jollof rice from West Africa, Sudanese dough- nuts, and Queen of Sheba choc- olate cardamom cake. Profiles of fellow members of the Beta Isra- el community of Ethiopian Jews who found a new home in Har- lem round out the book.
OFF MENU Amy Rosen ECW Press June 17
$62,863.42 with one instruction: “Fol- low your passion, Dollface.” This inspires her to learn the art of French cuisine in classes where she meets an unattainable object of desire, all while dealing with the prospect of reuniting with an earlier vacation fling. Presumably there’s some cooking in the story, too.
GURSHA: TIMELESS RECIPES FOR MODERN KITCHENS, FROM ETHIOPIA, ISRAEL, HARLEM, AND BEYOND Beejhy Barhany and Elisa Ung Knopf, April 1
5785 אביב 67
Made with FlippingBook Digital Proposal Creator