"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. There's nothing to offend, and everything to recommend. I recommend this tide for the general book trade, libraries, and the Jewish specialty shops. Like all stories of Chelm, readers of all ages see right through the protagonists' problem, though to inhabitants of Chehn the matter is as opaque and heavy as the failed latkes themselves. There is also a page on the origins of Chanukah, for those readers who don't already know. By the way, the book lets us know exactly what the recipe is-good cooking despite its destruction in actual use by the hero's wife. The "secret recipe" is for latkes (potato pancakes), a traditional dish on Chanukah, and the hero pursues it in the typical inverted-logic fashion of the denizens of Chelm, a real center of Torah knowledge before the Holocaust and the source of many tales of Jewish humor. Illustrations are by Joan Halpern, familiar to marty readers from her work in the near classic The Carp in the Bathtub, by Barbara Cohen. An edition of Malke's secret recipe(1988) Malke's secret recipe a Chanukah story by David A. Adler, wellknown author of the Cwn Jansen series and winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award for The Number on My Grandfather's Arm. This is an enjoyable picture book by David A.
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