3 essential recipes from Jake Cohen’s new ‘Jew-ish’ cookbook
Try roasted chicken matzo ball soup, black and white chocolate chip cookies, and savory babka.
Black and white cookies in Jew-Ish: a Cookbook by Jake Cohen(Matt Taylor-Gross )
By Karen Elizabeth Watts
If you are one of the 330k-plus followers on Jake Cohen’s Instagram, you already know his first book is a testament to the constant evolution of Jewish food. While some recipes are traditional, many are a modern twist that make the dish unique.
Jake’s headnotes in the cookbook,
Jew-ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes From A Modern Mensch (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30), provide witty insight and personal commentary. The fascinating intro reminds readers to “actively exercise gratitude, to strengthen and build our community,” and eat! Hosting Shabbat offered Jake that opportunity.