Jewish Cookbook Social Club: Jennifer Abadi

Join us for the second installation of our Jewish Cookbook Club series on May 18. This month, we’ll be exploring Chef Jennifer Abadi’s A Fistful of Lentils. 

A Fistful of Lentils is a cookbook about Jennifer’s family’s stories, history, and cooking from Aleppo, Syria. In the 1970s, Jennifer’s mother Annette and her Aunt Essie first decided to collect her great-grandmother Esther’s recipes. Thirty years later, Jennifer picked up from where they left off, assembling and recording the delicious Syrian dishes that she grew up with and was afraid would be lost over time. 

The family stories shared while cooking became as essential as the food itself, culminating in A Fistful of Lentils: a cookbook-memoire that holds a remarkable family history while sharing the aromas of their kitchen with its allspice, tamarind,  lemon, cumin, mint, and rose water.

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