New American Cooking

Joan Nathan, the author of Jewish Cooking in America, An American Folklife Cookbook, and many other treasured cookbooks, now gives us a fabulous feast of new American recipes and the stories behind them that reflect the most innovative time in our culinary history.

The huge influx of peoples from all over Asia—Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, India—and from the Middle East and Latin America in the past forty years has brought to our kitchens new exotic flavors, little-known he…