- extensive outreach to Jewish Lights/ Skylight Path community- recipes features in kosher and vegan magazines- engaging The Jewish Food Hero audience on social media- maximizing connections in the Jewish community and guest blogging
Feeding the Women of the Bible is a modern Jewish cookbook that offers plant based recipes that celebrate and lift up the voices of the the female characters in the Bible.
Feeding the Women of the Bible is a modern Jewish cookbook that offers plant based recipes that celebrate and lift up the voices of the the female characters in the Bible.
Delicious and Practical Vegan Recipes: All 51 recipes in the book are plant-based, minimally processed, and made with ten ingredients or less.By Women for Women: Female readers will connect to strong female characters from the Bible and to the energetic themes of their respective narrative. Each female character is "offered" recipes aligned with what she is needing most.Whole Body Nourishment: By connecting biblical narrative and healthy recipes, this cookbook will aid women in seeking out physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing.
“"Alfond achieves her goal of creating a "multicultural/ multiethnic Jewish community vegan cookbook" and provides great food for thought, as well."-- Publishers Weekly”
"Alfond achieves her goal of creating a “multicultural/ multiethnic Jewish community vegan cookbook” and provides great food for thought, as well."—Publishers Weekly
Kenden Alfond is a psychotherapist who started Jewish Food Hero as a community service project to support personal and environmental health. When she was 12 years old, she chose to become a vegetarian (and now is 99% vegan). She has a BA from Brown University and an MA in counseling psychology. In 2005, she went to India as an American Jewish World Service (AJWS) volunteer and went on to live and work in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Switzerland and Cambodia working on various projects for the United Nations and NGOs. In 2013, she obtained a certificate in plant-based nutrition from Cornell University. She started Jewish Food Hero to get healthier food onto Jewish tables around the world.
This book lifts up and raises the voices of female characters from the Bible. /p> Feeding the Women of the Bible, Feeding Ourselves is a modern Jewish cookbook that offers plant based recipes. It can be read and reread while sitting comfortably on the couch, and later transferred to the kitchen to serve as a recipe book. The women of the Bible were very much like women today in that they were imperfect and faced many of the trials and tribulations that contemporary women experience, from jealousy and mistreatment to infertility. ey were also capable of great things just as we are: leadership, love, loyalty, motherhood and healing, to name a few. When a woman walks into the kitchen to prepare a meal, she's not just doing something technical. She nourishes her soul and the souls of her family members or guests. She expresses her creativity and offering others the opportunity to share in her joys and challenges. In this cookbook, women will connect to strong female characters from the Bible and to the energetic themes of their respective narrative. Each female character is "offered" recipes aligned with what she is needing most. ese biblical women and corresponding recipes will inspire and offer health food to the women who cook them. Cooking is connected to tradition. Food communicates our history. Many of us eat to re-experience our emotional memories. This project is an act of connecting healthier kosher pareve recipes to women from the Bible. It is a project that connects female biblical stories to our modern female body. Today, women require and seek out healthy food to nourish our complex and complete lives.
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