Joan Nathan (born 1943) is cookbook author and newspaper journalist who has produced TV documentaries on the subject of Jewish cuisine. She was a co-founder of New York’s Ninth Avenue Food Festival under then-Mayor Abraham Beame. The Jerusalem Post has called her the “matriarch of Jewish cooking.”
Nathan was executive producer and host of “Jewish Cooking in America with Joan Nathan,” a PBS series based on her cookbook, Jewish Cooking in America. The success of the series helped Nathan earn the distinction of being called the “Jewish Julia Child” in the media. Nathan has written 10 cookbooks, winning numerous awards for them.
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Quote: ” ‘[Joan Nathan] is, before anything, a storyteller and a cultural anthropologist who has chosen food as her medium to share the stories of the Jewish diaspora,’ emails Leah Koenig, the cookbook author who lists Nathan as one of her writing gods. ‘Her books have added the texture of lived experience to my understanding of Jewish culinary traditions.’ ”
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