Book Review
Consider the Fork
by Ron Kaplan
Even the most experienced home chefs may seldom think about the dangerous and painful sacrifices made by the generations of cooks who came before them, or the evolution of the processes that make food more than just a nutritional...
Book Review
Helen Nash's New Kosher Cuisine
by Ron Kaplan
Kosher cuisine has a reputation for being too heavy, too salty, too meaty, and having too many unhealthy ingredients. While that may have been true in your bubbe’s (grandmother’s) generation, things have taken a turn for the better...
Book Review
Take a Shot
by Ron Kaplan
Jake Steinfeld, perhaps better known by his media persona, “Body by Jake,” had what he considered a great idea. And once Jake Steinfeld gets a great idea, it’s nearly impossible to deter him from seeing it through. This time it was...
Book Review
Beyond Bend It Like Beckham
by Ron Kaplan
Like A League of Their Own, which brought light to the underreported and long-forgotten role of women in professional baseball, the 2002 feature film mentioned in Timothy Grainey’s title gave a boost to women’s soccer (albeit in a...
Book Review
The Bar Mitzvah and the Beast
by Ron Kaplan
The road across country is paved with good intentions in this charming story of an adventurous family that decides to do something special in honor of their oldest son’s bar mitzvah. Most Jewish boys about to cross the threshold into...
Book Review
The Passion of Tiger Woods
by Ron Kaplan
For more than a decade Tiger Woods has been one of the most celebrated men in the history of sports. At a young age, this dynamo took the golf world by storm, accumulating the same number of titles and trophies in a dozen or so years...
Book Review
There You Have It
by Ron Kaplan
Howard Cosell was one of those personalities who was either loved or hated. Loud, smart, unattractive, and possessing a distinctive (and according to detractors, most grating) voice, he was, nevertheless one of the most influential...
Book Review
APO 123
by Ron Kaplan
Part M\A\S\H, part Catch-22, John Henry Brebbia’s APO 123 seeks to capture the mundaneness of life on a post-Second World War army base in France, from the point of view of a group of junior officers in the army’s legal division....