"Chana Rubin provides kosher and sound dietary advice in bite-size tasty nuggets. This book gives excellent science-based nutritional counsel in a way that improves your health while enriching your soul. I heartily recommend it." --Meir Stampfer, MD, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health<br /><br />Food for the Soul is a most welcome compilation of thoughtful nutrition, dietary information and epresentative recipes geared owards a Jewish lifestyle. Food for the Soul is not a cookbook per se, but rather a guidebook for adapting to a healthier lifestyle. Chana Rubin proves that Jewish food, based on eating foods that are tasty and good, can be healthy and delicious. --Gil Marks Author of the James Beard Award-Winning Olive Trees and Honey and The World of Jewish Cooking<br /><br />This book offers recipes for 100 relatively simple and very nutritious dishes - three of which I have already tried at home and which were very successful. Some of the entries are categorized as being suitable for Shabbat, a variety of holidays or vegetarians... It would be great if this book were studied diligently by the English-speaking women of observant Jewish households, who have the power to change the diets and lifestyles of their usually large families. --Judy Siegal-Itzkovich, World Jewish Digest, September 2008"Chana Rubin's nutritional information is tailored to the needs and obligations of keeping kosher, observing Shabbat and holidays and Jewish cultural connections to food. This is about eating in moderation, with sensitivity, care, pleasure and kavanah, or thoughtfulness." -- Sandee Brawarsky, The Jewish Week --Sandee Brawarsky, The Jewish WeekFood for the Soul is a most welcome compilation of thoughtful nutrition, dietary information and epresentative recipes geared owards a Jewish lifestyle. Food for the Soul is not a cookbook per se, but rather a guidebook for adapting to a healthier lifestyle. Chana Rubin proves that Jewish food, based on eating foods that are tasty and good, can be healthy and delicious. --Gil Marks Author of the James Beard Award-Winning Olive Trees and Honey and The World of Jewish Cooking
This review is from: Food for the Soul: Traditional Jewish Wisdom for Healthy Eating [Paperback]The first part of this book, which is not exactly a cookbook, discusses food and the Jewish philosophy as related to eating. Then there is a long discussion of healthy diet (One of my non-Jewish friends out and out told me she thought traditional Jewish cuisine was probably one of the most unhealthy she'd ever run across. I thought about pot-roasted brisket or noodle kugel, laden with butter and eggs, and well, I didn't exactly jump up and protest.) So who is this book directed to? I suppose it is aimed at anyone eating a glatt-kosher diet with traditional recipes from Bubbe (grandma) and who hasn't found a way to update these traditional foods.Jewish cooking has kind of a split personality these days; the Eastern European foods come out of a diet of deprivation in a cold climate (or as a friend puts it, where cabbage boiled in duck fat is considered a green, leafy vegetable.) But more recently, Jewish cookbooks have added the Mediterranean/Middle Eastern foods and healthier foods of the Sephardic Jews, who eat chick peas, cous-cous, lentils, and more vegetables in general. The biggest culprits of fat-laden dishes may be pareve (non-meat or milk) and "milchig" or dairy-based dishes. When creating a menu, the foods are either meat-containing and neutral, or dairy-containing and neutral, which means no meat lasagna with cheese or pizza-with-pepperoni, by the way. Some updated recipes in the back include Sephardic red lentil soup (rather like Turkish red lentil soup) and matzoh brei with asparagus (fried soaked flat cracker-like bread; matzoh can be used as a pasta substitute during Passover.) Also a matzoh lasagna. Hints are given on how to reduce fats and salt in traditional foods. This is a thoughtful book, probably aimed at those who live in a community where traditional Kosher cooking rules supreme and where change must be weighed against a strong tradition going back for hundreds of years....
This review is from: Food for the Soul: Traditional Jewish Wisdom for Healthy Eating [Paperback]This information-packed, soft-cover book provides nutrition basics and over 100 of Rubin's personal favorite recipes, while addressing nutrition and health from a Jewish perspective. No photographs or illustrations here, but much food for thought. Selected chapters open with quotations from the likes of Kook, the late Lubavitcher Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the Bible or Rashi, with the occasional Chinese proverb thrown in. The 17 chapters have names like "Diet and Health," "Eating for Optimum Health," "Fat Facts" and "Childhood Obesity," with sub-headings, such as "Health in the Jewish tradition," "Food as a vehicle to holiness,"...
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