Joan Nathan Has Some Advice for Forward Readers

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Food writer Joan Nathan will be the Forward’s guest Bintel Brief columnist during the month of November. Nathan is the author of numerous cookbooks, including “Jewish Cooking in America” (Knopf, 1994), “Joan Nathan’s Jewish Holiday Cookbook” (Schocken, 2004) and “The New American Cooking” (Knopf, 2005). She has won two James Beard awards and a Julia Child Award, among other honors, for her cookbooks, and was the executive producer and host of the PBS series “Cooking in America With Joan Nathan.” Her new book on French Jewish cuisine is slated for release next fall.
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