Fast and Festive Meals for the Jewish Holidays: Complete Menus, Rituals, and Party-Planning Ideas for Every Holiday of the Year
There's more than just recipes here: in addition to great menus  for every Jewish holiday, Sorosky includes a short history of the  occasion, the appropriate blessings, decorations and centerpieces, and  essential religious items and foods--in short, everything you need to  knowandhave to make your holiday meal a success. What's more,  she provides a game plan for organizing your time in the kitchen and   getting everything on the table at the right time and temperature. As  an added bonus, Sorosky includes "Extra Points": special  projects for children, invitation ideas, or special decorations to lift  your celebration above the ordinary.In her foreword, Marlene Sorosky admits that her upbringing in a  tyranically Orthodox household spoiled Jewish holidays for her until  she was well into adulthood. While writing this book, however, she  discovered the joyous spirit of both the holidays and Judaism--apparent  in every page ofFast and Festive Meals for the Jewish Holidays.