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Tony- and Emmy-winning performer Mandy Patinkin has long sung the praises of his mother's cooking, from her famous butter-crisp cookies and irresistible chicken soup with matzo balls to her candied sweet potatoes and delicious Passover nut sponge cake.Following the phenomenal success of her first cookbook, Grandma Doralee Patinkin returns, this time delivering menus for the most special and challenging meals of all - the holidays.

Organized by holiday, this book presents complete menus for Rosh Hashanah, Hanukkah, Passover, and other Jewish holidays, as well as Thanksgiving, bridal luncheons, patio suppers, and more.Spanning appetizers, salads, vegetables, entrees, and desserts, and including both buffet and sit-down menus, the recipes reflect traditions that go back many generations, as well as contemporary favorites.

Anyone whose holiday memories include delicious homemade potato latkes, noodle kugel, and melt-in-your-mouth rugelach will delight in this homespun and heartfelt collection. ... Read more

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Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Holiday Cookbook: A Jewish Family's celebrations
Great cookbook,Lots of good recipes, and the comments by Mandy Patinkin are very good, and the paperback cover makes it easy to handle. Enjoy!

This book is a treasure!
What a wonderful book.Recipes just like the ones I grew up with.I even gave them as holiday gifts.Books like these remind us that family memories follow us through our lives in our minds as well as at the dinner table and that we should gather these dishes in writing and hold them dear.This book is a treasure.

Missing Flavor
I made a few dishes for passover, a lot of the recipes are missing flavor.Some recipes do not have clear instructions, Roasted Chicken has instructions to bake instead of roasting.I am Jewish and my grandma's dishes are way better then Grandma Doralee's dishes, except my grandma cannot seem to give me recipes because she does not measure anything, so every time I follow her directions, the dish turns into a mess.I also did not like that 12 pages of the book are reviews and praises from other people.The book is small as it is, I don't need to spend money on praises.I would not recommend this book.I have to say one thing, her chicken soup is good, but how can you mess that up.

The best of the best!
Doralee Patinkin's cookbooks are two of my all-time favorites(and I'm not Jewish, so they should appeal to everyone with taste buds).Every recipe I've tried has been absolutely wonderful.Directions are clear, and each recipe is preceded by a brief description of why it is a favorite.The forward is by actor Mandy Patinkin, and the comments about some recipes include his passion for him.These books are very warmly written, and filled with tried-and-true family favorites which will be just as successful in the readers's homes.Absolutely wonderful!

More than one reason to own a cookbook...
I tend to collect cookbooks that are fun to read, have interesting graphics, and have recipes that don't require days to prepare. This book is one of them. In addition, in the introduction, Mandy Patinkin (the author'sson) writes: "Please try some of my ma's holiday treats and share someof my memories." Who could resist? Not me! ... Read more

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The Emmy and Tony Award-winning performer Mandy Patinkin has long sung the praises of his mother's cooking, from her out-of-this-world chicken soup with matzo balls to her triple-threat brownies.Now in trade paperback, this straight-from-the-heart cookbook brings together home-cooked recipes and memories that have nurtured several generations.

Spanning appetizers to desserts, from everyday delights to special occasions, recipes include:--Grandma Doralee's Chicken Salad
--Potato Latkes
--Sweet-and-Sour Cabbage
--Lemon Artichoke Chicken
--Rack of Lamb with Red Pepper Marinade
--Carrot Pudding
--Spinach Noodle Souffle
--Butter Crisps
--Fruit Kuchen
--Kahlua Cheesecake
--Passover Sponge Cakes
--and much more.

With an introduction by Mandy Patinkin, this delightful and down-to-earth cookbook brings together three generations, one extraordinary mom, and more than 150 irresistible ways to bring tradition and love to the family table.Amazon.com Review
Actor and singer Mandy Patinkin wanted his mother to recordher recipes to preserve them for the family, but happily for all ofus, she turned them into a cookbook everyone can share. It is a joyhaving this intimate view of the enthusiastic palates and the quirkyculinary treasures prized by this food-loving family, through over 150recipes passed along from grandparents, aunts, cousins, andfriends. It is also an intriguing window into the way Jewish Americansate in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, when garlic was an exotic, gourmetingredient.

All the expected and familiar Jewish dishes are here,such as cheese blintzes, egg-rich noodle puddings, dense choppedliver, chicken soup, even a homemade version of lox.But the Patinkinfamily is full of adventurous eaters and creative cooks, so you alsofind Rack of Lamb elegantly marinated with red sweet peppers, portwine, honey, mustard, and rosemary and a creamy coleslaw tangy withchampagne vinegar.

Emphatic flavors make the recipes in this bookdistinctive. Grandma Patinkin punches up her egg salad with chilisauce. She rubs garlic powder on her roast filet mignon, and also putsit in her matzo balls. And she loves curry powder, so it shows up notonly in a frittata, gazpacho, and chicken salad, but also in herchicken soup. You decide if this is heaven or culinary heresy!

Grandma Doralee is a mean baker, and her Cream Cheese Brownies, withtheir rich topping, are not to be missed. Nor are her butter cookies,distinctively sweetened with brown as well as white sugar.

In sum,the Patinkin family's cooking, like Mandy's singing, is unique, bold,and delivered straight from the heart.--Dana Jacobi ... Read more

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One Great Cookbook
This is a wonderful cook book, one of those that really rolls back the years to recall all the family meals we love to remember.It is truly a lovely book that will be in your kitchen for years to come.

The best of the best!
Doralee Patinkin's cookbooks are two of my all-time favorites(and I'm not Jewish, so they should appeal to everyone with taste buds).Every recipe I've tried has been absolutely wonderful.Directions are clear, and each recipe is preceded by a brief description of why it is a favorite.The forward is by actor Mandy Patinkin, and the comments about some recipes include his passion for him.These books are very warmly written, and filled with tried-and-true family favorites which will be just as successful in the readers's homes.Absolutely wonderful!

A Find!
I bought this because I was looking for easy but delicious passover recipes.Doralee Patinkin Rubin really came through for me.Her apple cake and Baked Chicken a l'orange were great.I made a few other recipes and they were thoroughly enjoyed.Her recipes if not all technicallykosher come from that great tradition of Jewish women many of us werefortunate enough to have as mothers and grandmothers.

Like being back my grandmother's kitchen
For both traditional and modernized Jewish soul food, this book has quickly become a treasured resource. The recipies are straightforward, not pretentious or gratutuitiously glamourous, and are delicious and easy toprepare. It's traditional ethnic dishes and more, with a wonderful,friendly emphasis on entertaining and sharing events and holidays withfamilies, making food a part of the memories.

If your Jewish grandma is (or was) a great cook...
this is what she would make.

Delicious, festive and family dishes that bring back memories are supplemented with new staples of the American diet, which make this an all around good cookbook for nostalgia and more. Thefood is hearty, wholesome, easy to prepare and shop for; not specialordering or trips running around town for esoteric ingredients. And likeany good grandma's recipies, emphasizes entertaining family and friendswith old favorites as well as experimentation.

I highly recommend it. ... Read more

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Filled with personal stories of Jewish immigrants, from their arrival in America (as early as 1579) to the present day, this important tribute also includes reproductions of letters and newspaper articles which describe what life was like in the old countries as well as in the new. Includes profiles of Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Leonard Bernstein, and others. Photos & illustrations. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gary Coleman, Robert Altman, Mickey Mantle, Mandy Patinkin, George Best, Jonah Lomu, Jim Nabors, Kerry Packer, Larry Hagman, Billy Preston, Alonzo Mourning, David Crosby, Freddy Fender, Linda Lovelace, Charles N. Perkins, George Lopez, Shelley Fabares, Ken Howard, Gene Okerlund, Isabelle Dinoire, Lili Elbe, Jimmy Little, Phil Lesh, Les Whitt, Philip Blaiberg, Jennifer Harman, Flex Wheeler, Sean Elliott, Frank Bough, Ann Livermore, Kelly Perkins, Lucy Davis, Richard Devos, Ron Springs, Frank Torre, Yōhei Kōno, Steven Cojocaru, Peter Houghton, Connie Culp, Louis Washkansky, Howard W. Mattson, Georgi Velinov, Richard Harrison Smith, Stormie Jones, Julia Polak, Clyde Packer, Aron Eisenberg, Alessia Di Matteo, Povilas Aksomaitis, Joe Burnside, Ben Hardwick, Diane Hébert, Chris Klug, Baby Fae, Elizabeth Craze, Fiona Coote, Clint Hallam, Jeff Kepner. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: George Best (22 May 1946 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional football player, best known for his years with Manchester United. He was a winger whose game combined pace, acceleration, balance, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to beat defenders. In 1968, his annus mirabilis, he won the European Cup with Manchester United, and was named the European Footballer of the Year. When fit, he was an automatic choice for the Northern Ireland team, but he was unable to lead them to the World Cup qualification, despite being capped 37 times and scoring nine goals. In 1999, he was voted 11th at the IFFHS European Player of the Century election, and 16th in the World Player of the Century election. Pelé named him as one of the 125 best living footballers in his 2004 FIFA 100 list and Best was named 19th, behind Gerd Müller, at the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll. In his ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=426381 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! MandelBruce "Mandy" Patinkin (November 30, 1952,Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American actor of stage and screen and a tenorvocalist. Patinkin is a noted interpretor of themusic of Stephen Sondheim and is perhaps best known for his work inmusical theatre, originating iconic roles such asGeorge Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George, Che Guevara inEvita, Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden andBurrs in The Wild Party. He has also appeared in television seriessuch as: Chicago Hope, Dead Like Me and the first twoseasons of Criminal Minds. His film credits include ThePrincess Bride, Alien Nation, Yentl, Men With Guns,Run Ronnie Run, Dick Tracy, and The Adventures of Elmo inGrouchland. ... Read more

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Evita program from the San Francisco Orpheum Theatre production starring Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, and Bob Gunton. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 151 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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Chapters: Prince, Joey Ramone, R. Kelly, Mandy Patinkin, Paul Stanley, Axl Rose, Marvin Gaye, Ronnie James Dio, Smokey Robinson, Al Green, Jeff Buckley, Maynard James Keenan, Clay Aiken, Blake Lewis, Chris Cornell, Daniel Rodríguez, David Archuleta, Constantine Maroulis, Steven Tyler, Mark Janicello, David L. Cook, Donald Braswell Ii, Dick Van Dyke, Stephen Lynch, Charles Davis Tillman, Ace Young, Cee-Lo Green, Brent Barrett, The-Dream, Dennis Deyoung, Anthony Kiedis, Brian Molko, Tommy Shaw, Davey Havok, Adam Levine, Bobby Valentino, Anwar Robinson, Ryland Bouchard, Brian Mcknight, Scott Leonard, Trey Songz, Irvan Perez, Sean Altman, Anthony Fedorov, Kalil Wilson, John Steel, Bobby Vinton, Donald George, Joey Belladonna, Robert Breault, Enzo Stuarti, Neal E. Boyd, Raúl Esparza, Charles Wood, Aaron Gillespie, David Miller, Evan Williams, Paul Austin Kelly, Spencer Chamberlain, Patrick Henry Hughes, David Homyk, Richard Miller, Steve Walsh, Jermaine Paul, Vincenzo Manno, George D. Pyper, Alan Bennett, John Easterlin, Randy Debarge, Mario Chamlee, George Shirley, Mark Debarge, George Rasely, Sam Lloyd, Steven Pasquale, Joe Feeney, Lewis Cleale, Jimmy Fortune, Walter Van Brunt, Lew Dewitt, Benzion Miller, Billy Jones, James Debarge, Reed Miller, Brian Worley, Howard Marsh, Russell Oberlin, Joseph Malovany, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Paul Kandel, Robert "Squirrel" Lester, Don Seabolt, John Battles, Luther Saxon, Salvatore Champagne, Alan Lindquest. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 613. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson; June 7, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He has been known under the unpronounceable symbol , which he used between 1993 and 2000. This name change invoked controversy and many referred to him as "The Artist Former...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=57317 ... Read more

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The author of The Power of Myth presents an illustrated companion volume to a ten-part series on public television, a discussion of the Book of Genesis by more than fifty eminent thinkers and artists. TV tie-in. Read by Bill Moyers and others. Amazon.com Review
In all honesty, when I first tuned into Genesis the PBSseries, I wasn't really in the mood to hear a cabal ofhyper-intellectual critics enlighten me with their interpretations ofan already widely familiar religious text. Within seconds of watching,however, I was completely engrossed in a conversation unlike any I'dexperienced before--lively, intelligent, generous, illuminating,exciting. If you didn't catch the series, or even if you did and youstill want more, pick up this book. It expands in places where theprogram had to be cut and is just as riveting. The commentary and the"already familiar text" prove as multidimensional and visceral aslife itself. ... Read more

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Unfortunate interpretations
Another reviewer reports correctly that "the people in Genesis are all exposed as being very human, with fractured families." So far, so good. That is true, and it is precisely the point of all the stories in the Torah: people are human, and God has given them free will. They often make mistakes, from which mankind is supposed to learn.

But the discussions of Genesis in Moyers' book, are otherwise hopelessly inconsistent with Jewish thinking. And since Genesis is, after all, the first book in the Jewish Torah, or Five Books of Moses, it's somewhat incomprehensible that Bill Moyers would consult just one Jewish authority, Rabbi Burton Visotzky. Then again, I once heard Moyers dismiss Judaism as the product of an "angry God," which was repaired by the coming of Christ. So it's not surprising that Moyers' presents by and large extremely negative views of the Genesis stories, making all those people sound devilish.

Consider for example Moyers' take on the story of Abraham and Isaac.

According to him, God is angry and unforgiving. Moyers furthermore condemns Abraham as a mere trickster hiding "behind his wife's skirts" and resorting to cunning.

There are, however, many other rabbinical interpretations of Abraham and Isaac story in Genesis, Chapter 22. One of the best, to my mind, is offered by W. Gunther Plaut in his 1981 English-opening edition ofThe Torah: A Modern Commentary andThe Torah: Genesis.

Plaut correctly notes that the first command to Abraham "issued by Elohim---the generic term for God or gods---and the command is one that other elohim could and did make" during Abraham's era.

However, when Abraham is about to perform the sacrifice, "it is Abraham's God, Adonai, who stays his hand. In other words, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob "not only rejects the sacrifice of a son by a father, but rejects, as well, its use as a theological theme. This is in stark contrast to Eastern religions...in which a father's sacrificial gift of his son plays an important role."

Thus, Plaut concludes that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob rejected the contemporary norms of Biblical times, together with any and all acts of child sacrifice.

Plaut's interpretation makes eminent sense, whereas Moyers attempts to discredit the lessons embedded in Genesis, particularly that of Abraham and Isaac.

Whereas Moyers' constructs a vindictive, dead conversation on Genesis, Plaut genuinely reflects living Judaism.

Individual rabbinical scholars may disagree over varied interpretations of Biblical passages, for millennia Jewish sages such as Rashi and Maimonides have agreed that Torah is open to interpretation. Indeed, they encourage interpretation, teaching that the faithful should deeply question holy texts. The goal, over time: for each person to reach fuller and deeper understanding of HaShem (literally, "The Name" [of G-d]). In large measure, thus has the living, loving Jewish faith --- always in pursuit of truth, peace and justice --- evolved.

It's a terrible shame that Rabbi Visotzky allowed Moyers to get away with this nonsense.

The book has nice art work, though.

---Alyssa A. Lappen

Rabid, lying, paganism, RUN AMOK
Listen to Chris Wallace's closing remarks on Bill Moyers on Fox News Sunday (8/26/07) and you will understand who and what we are dealing with in Bill Moyers - a radical, pagan, left wing, bomb throwing LOON!!!

A true conversation
Bill is an extraordinary visionary. What a thought to bring together scholars from multiple religions to talk about Genesis. This is a must read. The conversation is insightful and enlightening. No wonder Fundamentalists dislike Bill. He is fully inclusive and working to build bridges across the chasm of beliefs. Understanding will only be built through learning conversations, not by intolerance.

I was mesmerized with the audiotape
I cannot add more to the previous posts except to repeat for emphasis how very interesting it is that Jews, Christians and Muslims share this story.There is so much to contemplate and so much common ground.

Illuminating conversation
When I watched the PBS series, I locked myself in the room each week so I wouldn't be disturbed.Imagine several bright, articulate folks who weren't arguing over the historicity of the Gensis accounts, but simply looking for their meaning.Moreover, all weren't Biblical scholars.Their ranks included novelists and playwrights who understand the narrative elements far better than I. As I watched I developed favorites who I looked forward to hearing from again and others who drove me batty.

When I bought the book, I found it to be incredibly helpful for me as a preacher to identify the questions that might be asked of the Genesis text that I would fail to ask because of my own biases or my own fear of asking a sacreligious question.The book is especially good in it's examination of the image of God and the wrestling Jacob stories, but perhaps my favorite is the discussion of call and promise, particularly because of strength of the scholars-Robert Alter, Burt Visotzky and my favorite, Lew Smedes.

This book can help us answer the questions people are really asking, instead of the ones we want them to ask.Highly recomended ... Read more

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Reading to Grandson
The pictures and colors in this book are great. So much fun to read over and over.My grandson laughs when we read it. I remember this being told to me as a child.

great illustrations for a classic rhyme
I loved this rhyme as a child and would read it over and over so I bought this to pass down to my two sons. The illustrations are great and add a fun quirky element to the book. My son's especially love to be read the page that describes all the different cheeses Jack might have in his house. They crack up laughing at the description of the different cheeses, ie stinky and gooey! My only quirk with the book is that the whole rhyme should be read with no interuptions to get the full effect and it's hard to do so when they want to stop and talk about the illustrations. After you've read it to them a few times and let them explore the pictures then you can go back and read it all in one go. This is a marvelous rhyme to share with children.

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This is the House that Jack Built
This is a wonderful book that I first saw in a local book store.I found it here for a great price, it arrived in new condition quickly.I will order all of my books from Amazon from now on.

house jackbuilt is great
My son has loved this book since he was 1 & 1/2 years old. We have looked everywhere for it so we were very happy to find it. He is 6 now and he still loves this book. He even reads it to his 2 yr old brother. A day don't pass that we don't read it at least once. The only thing I would change with this purchase is I wish it was hard backed but it stands up to my boys great.

Great Book!Wonderfully Illustrated!!
You can't go wrong with anything written and/or illustrated by Simms Taback.We bought this originally because I fondly remembered the story from my own childhood, but this surpasses that earlier edition.It is beautifully illustrated and captivating for our kids.They especially like it when you speed read it to them!!We've worn out our first version, but will be ordering another one.My Highest Recommendation!!
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