Healthy Kosher Eating

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

About Chana Rubin

Chana Rubin is a registered dietitian. She studied at Oregon State University and Oregon Health and Science University and has taught nutrition and healthy cooking in the US and in Israel. Chana has three sons and one granddaughter and lives with her husband in Beer Sheva, Israel.

For great, healthy kosher recipes...

Sample Recipe

Walnut and Lentil Spread (Parve)

Serve this tasty and healthy spread in place of chopped liver.

Ingredients:

1 cup walnut pieces
1 cup brown lentils, sorted, rinsed and drained
2 cups vegetable broth or water
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 large onion, thinly sliced
Salt and freshly ground pepper

Method:

Spread the walnuts on a small baking sheet and bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 5 to 7 minutes, until fragrant. Set them aside.

Cook the lentils and broth or water in a saucepan for about 30 minutes, until tender. Add water if necessary to prevent sticking.

Saute the onions in oil until they begin to brown.

Process the lentils, onions and walnuts in a food processor until they are just slightly chunky, or smoother, as desired. Season the mixture with salt and pepper to taste.

Refrigerate several hours or overnight.

Serves 6 to 8