Nana Lena's Kitchen

One part Tuesdays with Morrie, one part A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Nana Lena's Kitchen by Amy Ostrower is an inspirational collection of stories and recipes from a Southern Jewish kitchen that read almost like folktales, fables from a mythic past handed down generation to generation with love. As an extended family of sisters, daughter and granddaughters gather to make a Passover meal or prepare the Shivah table, Nana Lena's recipes are dispensed with an equal measure of wisdom - about life and death, courage and responsibility, family and faith. "Nana Lena's Kitchen warms your heart. In an age of indifference here is a woman, her stories and recipes deliciously remembered, who reminds you of the beauty of the human heart. Pull up a chair and have a nosh."--Jan Goldstein, Author of All That Matters "Here are charm and wisdom, served with love."--Amy Hill Hearth, Co-Author of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years As we see the spirited Lena grow in these pages from a young girl and impetuous bride to a loving mother and grandmother, her story mirrors the larger currents of her times. The daughter of immigrants, Lena Goodman was born on the Fourth of July, 1912 in Berkley, Virginia. During her lifetime, Lena experienced the 1918 Flu Epidemic, the Great Depression, the Second World War, -- and even a Jewish boy named Sandy Koufax play Major League Baseball. She continues to live on in these stories, fondly remembered by her granddaughter Amy Ostrower, who spent forty-five years learning at her table.