The World at Our Table: A Euro-American Cookbook of Family Favorites

Rachel Miranda has engaged in a lifelong pursuit of community through home cooking, from her childhood in Switzerland, through her years of maintaining a kosher household while raising four children in Connecticut, to her dinners in Washington, D.C. for friends from all over the world. Here, for the first time, she has collected ninety-three sumptuous recipes that reflect the range of her culinary influences: farm-centered Swiss dishes and recipes infused with the distinctive flavors of neighboring Italy and France are inventively mingled with foods native to the Americas, and rounded out by cherished Eastern European Jewish classics. The World at Our Table is an invaluable guide for beginning and practiced cooks alike, providing precise instructions, thoughtful explanations, and the author's Cooking Tips to Live By. This unique narrative cookbook interweaves vibrant illustrations by artist Serena Faye Feingold with food origin stories, family anecdotes, and Rachel Miranda's invitation for each of us to rediscover the power of home-cooked food to connect us to one another. Family favorites include Tomato Bisque, Golden Zucchini Bread, Muesli, Pasta al Limone, Summer Corn Tart, Famous Squash Pie, Curried Fruited Rice, Shabbat Roast Chicken with Thyme Onion Jam, Agave Lime Salmon with Honeydew Salsa, Old World Stuffed Cabbage, Apricot Mandelbrot, Linzer Torte, Chocolate Challah Bread Pudding, and dozens more.

About the Author :
Rachel Miranda is an editor of translated Eastern European literature and foreign language learning materials. She received an MFA in Writing and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars and a BA in European Cultural Studies from Brandeis University, and she was the recipient of a 2017 Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently makes her home in Connecticut, near her beloved family and a small cove of the Long Island Sound, where she continues her lifelong practices of cooking, baking, and writing. This is her first published book. Serena Faye Feingold is a community artist, illustrator, and object maker whose work centers around visual storytelling. She received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, and a certification in Majolica glazing from the Scuola d'Arte Ceramica Romano Ranieri in Deruta, Italy. In 2017, she completed a residency at the Skopelos Foundation in Skopelos, Greece. Feingold is currently living in Connecticut, where she teaches virtually for an emerging artists' non-profit and runs her jewelry and illustration studio.