Levana's Table

Kosher Cooking for Everyone
by Levana Kirschenbaum
Photographs by Ann Stratton

For more than 20 years, Levana Kirschenbaum has delighted New Yorkers with her bakery, catering business and cooking classes. And, of course, our restaurant has taken her name as our own.

Now, for the first time, she shares her kosher recipes and kitchen wisdom with home cooks everywhere.

Levana's Table offers 150 recipes that are simple, nutritious, beautifully presented, and 100 percent kosher. Together, these dishes form an international mosaic reflecting the author's Moroccan upbringing and other wide-ranging culinary influences and interests: French, Mediterranean, Asian, and vegetarian coking,a s well as food for holidays and entertaining.

Levana Kirschenbaum is the founder of Levana's Place, the first gourmet kosher cooking school in New York City. She recently appeared on the PBS special The United Tastes of America and regularly teaches master cooking classes around the city..

Ann Stratton is a New York City-based photographer who has contributed to House & Garden, Food & Wine and O, The Oprah Magazine, among other lifestyle magazines. She recently completed the photographs for Take Out (Weight Watchers) and The Flavors of Olive Oil (Simon & Schuster).

Levana's Table, in the course of 208 pages, presents 150 magnificent recipes and 30 full-color photographs. It is a masterpiece of kosher cooking, and belongs in the kitchen of everyone devoted to maintaining kosher standards at home.

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