"Kosher Kettle is a 'must add' to your cookbooks collection. It is extensive in its scope and range, tantalizing in
its wide variety of new and traditional taste sensations and welcoming in its format and easy to follow recipes. Congratulations to Five Star Publications and Sybil Kaplan for this outstanding contribution to the world of Jewish cooking."

-- Kay. K. Pomerantz, author of Come for Cholent, Come for Cholent Again, Come for Everything... but Cholent

Foreword

by Joan Nathan

Kosher Kettle: International Adventures in Jewish Cooking is a collection of recipes from around the world.

I met Sybil Ruth Kaplan 20 years ago in Jerusalem while she was writing her first cookbook, Wonder of a Wonder Pot. A "wonder pot" was a marvelous invention created in Israel to help cooks with baking before they had ovens. Like her inventiveness with the wonder pot, Sybil has done it again, this time compiling her own kosher recipes with those of over 75 contributors.

In addition, I was delighted to see that she has included so many of Dalia Carmel's kosher recipes. Dalia, a food hobbyist, has been an invaluable help to food writers like myself throughout the years.

About Joan Nathan:

Joan Nathan is the author of Jewish Cooking in America, winner of the 1994 Julia Child Award for Best Cookbook of the Year and the 1994 James Beard Award for Food of the Americas. Her other books include The Children's Jewish Holiday Cookbook, The Jewish Holiday Kitchen, American Folklife Cookbook, and The Flavor of Jerusalem.

Ms. Nathan was also the senior producer of Passover: Traditions of Freedom, a one-hour documentary sposored by Maryland Public Television, and winner of a Silver Award at the 1994 Houston International Film Festival and the highest Chris Award, in the Religion and Philosophy division of the 1994 Columbus International Film Festival.

In addition, Ms. Nathan lectures around the country and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Food Arts Magazine and Hadassah Magazine.