Meet Two New Jewish Cookbooks I Love - No. 239

Portico and Kugels & Collards are as much about culture and history as they are fabulous recipes to make this fall

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE JEWISH to enjoy two new cookbooks. One was on my radar as I met its author, Brooklyn-based Leah Koenig of The Jewish Table, during Substack’s food writers’ initiative last year. Leah’s much-awaited Portico examines the distinct and captivating Jewish cooking and baking of Rome.

The second book, Kugels & Collards, weaves together firs…