Chewish: 36 Recipes of Love with Stories from Nama’s Kitchen (B&W)

World’s Best Cheesecake.
Finalist in Broadway musical Waitress contest. A bit of memoir with a dash of recipes

You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy these family stories or the ethnic-flavored goodies. Just pull up a chair to our dining room table and savor the love (served with a hearty dollop of butter and sour cream) in every recipe.

Love dessert? The best is saved for last, and you’ll find Diana Nama Goldberg’s easy recipe for the World’s Best Cheesecake, along with family favorites for every course: matzo ball soup, beef tenderloin, farfel, strudel, kugel, mandelbrate, schnecken, and more, seasoned with dining room table talk and kitchen hints.

Love a piled-high reuben sandwich? Did you know the reuben was invented in Omaha (not New York)? At the Blackstone Hotel. Author Sandra Wendel has found the original recipe for the secret sauce and included it on this book.

A brisket to die for. Find out why this brisket recipe will have your family licking their plates.

And Lucy’s Mother’s scrumptious apple cake. Holocaust survivor Lucy Lipiner contributed her mother’s apple cake recipe, savored through the generations and remembered during the worst days of the Holocaust to be revived today. Because every recipe comes with a story.