LET'S COOK!
Cooking is a great way to learn! It involves all the senses, exercises lots of skills and affords a wrap-around experience in cultural identity.
Cooking Jewish foods is an enticing gateway into Jewish history, geography, identity and culture. Plus, it's fun and builds family memories and closeness like no other in-home activity. Why? Because cooking together leads to eating together!
Family-friendly Cookbooks:
Beni's Family Cookbook for the Jewish Holidays by Jane Breskin Zalben
Mark Stark's Amazing Jewish Cookbook for the Entire Family The Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen: 70 fun recipes for you and your kids
by Joan Nathan, one of the best-known experts on Jewish cooking
Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for pre-scholers and up by Mollie Katzen and Ann Henderson
Chocolate Chip Challah and Other Twists on the Jewish Holiday Table: an Interactive Family Cookbook by Lisa Rauchwerger
And for parents:
Jewish Cooking in America by Joan Nathan
This book has everything - recipes, history, geography, folk tales and human interest stories. It's worth reading even if you never cook a single recipe! (note: the recipes are great!)
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