A Swedish Kitchen

Library Bookwatch, March, 2005

A Swedish Kitchen

Judith Pierce Rosenberg

Hippocrene Books

171 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10016

www.hippocrenebooks.com

0781810590 $24.95 1-212-685-4371

Judith Pierce Rosenberg's A Swedish Kitchen: Recipes And Reminiscences is no ordinary recipe collection, but a collection of stories of Swedish culinary and cultural heritage, supplemented with recipes from Rosenberg's Swedish roots. What's the difference between this and a cookbook? Reminiscences of life in Sweden revolve around food, with such succulent descriptions as have not been seen since the late food writer James Beard's works. The first hundred pages are devoted to these descriptions? but if you wish recipes alone, it's easy to go to the second part of the book, with its lightly color-coded page edges. Don't skip the first part, though--you'd be skipping the heart of a wonderful collection in A Swedish Kitchen.