Joan Nathan - Cookbooks

Cookbooks

Nathan has written ten cookbooks, winning numerous awards for them. Six are about Jewish cuisine and two on Israeli cuisine. She says her goal is to preserve Jewish traditions by interviewing cooks and documenting their recipes and stories for posterity.

In 1985, An American Folklife Cookbook won the R.T. French Tastemaker Award (now the James Beard Award). The New American Cooking won the James Beard and IACP Awards for Food of the Americas and Best American Cookbook. Nathan was the guest curator of Food Culture USA at the 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which was based on the research for her book. In 2005, Jewish Cooking in America won the Julia Child Award for Best Cookbook of the Year and the James Beard Award, Food of the Americas.

• The Flavor of Jerusalem, Little, Brown 1975
• The Jewish Holiday Kitchen, Schocken 1979
• An American Folklife Cookbook, Schocken 1984
• The Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen, Schocken 1988
• Jewish Cooking in America, Knopf 1994
• The Jewish Holiday Baker, Schocken 1997
• The Foods of Israel Today, Knopf 2001
• Joan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook, Schocken 2004
• The New American Cooking, Knopf 2005
• Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France, Knopf 2010