Love all the recipes in this cookbook! Delicious food that is easy to make! We use recipes out of this cookbook, weekly.The book is great. Recipes come about exactly as described. Very easy to follow with great illustrations and steps.The best of all,it has a short history section with description of holidays, customs and culture. I recommended this book to all my friends.This book had a lot of good recipes and the pictures were very well taken. Arrived in great condition as expected. This was a good purchase.I am not Jewish, but love the food. Great read and easy to understand instructions. Wonderful photos.GoodInteresting recipes and most interesting background on Jewish traditions and customs.Love, love, love this cookbook. The history alone in this book is precious. I use this cookbook all the time. I don't bake much so can't say much about that chapter...but oh, the rest..the rest is divine.I am learning about my Jewish roots and this book has been an incredible help. Oh the smells that are coming out of my kitchen...you should be so lucky!This cookbook is not for the newbie cook...and the author did explain, when I wrote to her, that there are misprints in some of the recipes. It is easy enough to figure out what to do though..if you know how to cook. I love this book.This is a rather disappointing offering from Ms Spieler and not a particularly inspiring addition to my cookbook collection. The recipes are somewhat simplified and streamlined which is fine for the beginning cook, as the instructions appear clear, but are a touch basic for the experienced kitchen maven. There are modernisations included that feel themselves rather dated (circa mid-90s) and detract from the base recipe. I think this book would be a fine addition to a beginner's collection, but I would gently suggest that there are better cookbooks available now covering Jewish cooking which may offer a more comprehensive collection of both traditional and updated recipes to serve a beginner as their first foray into Jewish cooking, but to also inspire a more experienced cook.Really good, loads of stuff from about a dozen different Jewish traditions.Easy to follow as well.GoodBrilliant!!!!!