I was enjoying this book until I reached page 176 and read the foreword to the Haroset recipe: "I suppose it's as well to start with the premise that there is no such thing as Jewish food. This of course begets the wider political assertion that there is no such thing as a Jewish race. Faith is not the decider, and culturally, geographically, physically, Jews are too dispersed and just too different to be contained within any one definition. But perhaps it's simpler to stick with the eating..." I could not continue reading after I read this passage.