Food for the Soul
Traditional Jewish Wisdom for Healthy Eating
by Chana Rubin, RD
* Includes over 100 recipes!
Food for the Soul will help you:
  • Learn to make healthy food choices
  • Sort out nutrition facts from fallacies
  • Plan and cook delicious and healthy kosher meals
  • Create a relaxing eating environment in your home
  • Discover the Jewish spiritual dimension of food & eating
 
 

Food for the Soul - Traditional Jewish Wisdom for Healthy Eating

"...one should take care to eat and drink only in order to be healthy in body and limb. Therefore, one should not eat all that the palate desires like a dog or donkey. Rather one should eat what is beneficial for the body, be it bitter or sweet. Conversely, one should not eat what is harmful to the body, even though it is sweet to the palate."
- Rambam, Hilchot De'ot 3:2

Food for the Soul addresses nutrition and health from a Jewish perspective.

What others are saying about Food for the Soul

"Chana Rubin provides kosher and sound dietary advice in bite-size tasty nuggets. This book gives excellent science-based nutritional counsel in a way that improves your health while enriching your soul. I heartily recommend it."
- Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition,
Harvard School of Public Health
"Jewish cooking can be heavy, while healthy cookbooks too often are heavy handed. Food for the Soul is a most welcome compilation of thoughtful nutrition, dietary information and representative recipes geared towards a Jewish lifestyle. Food for the Soul is not a cookbook per se, but rather a guidebook for adapting to a healthier lifestyle. Chana Rubin proves that Jewish food, based on eating foods that are tasty and good, can be healthy and delicious."
- Gil Marks
Author of the James Beard Award-Winning Olive
Trees and Honey and The World of Jewish Cooking
"As a Holistic Nutritionist and a cookbook collector, I must say that this simple, unassuming book will be one that I turn to most often in my healthy Jewish kitchen. Food for the Soul is a wonderful book, spot on with the latest nutrition data and advice, with totally sane suggestions for a balanced lifestyle of health and happiness AND a fabulous recipe section."
- Emily Segal, MA, CHHC
"As a nutritionist and a "Kosher-eater", I feel the Kosher world needs cookbooks that contain delicious and healthy recipes, which this book has in abundance. The recipes are very good, easily prepared, and contain healthful ingredients. Although geared toward the Kosher-eating community, the nutritional information and recipes could be used by everyone. Nice addition to my Kosher cookbook library!"
- Deborah Mendeloff, MS