The Jerusalem Cookbook
...experimenting on us: she’d never tried any of the recipes before, and was cooking them straight out of the book as written. The meal was astounding. Of course, her beautiful presentation and the excellent company had much to do with it, but the recipes were consistently fresh and bright and complex without being fussy. I find that I need a good cookbook every once in a while to inspire me in the kitchen–otherwise I fall into a morass of laziness...
