As someone who had lived in New York for several years this book made me realize how much I was missing out on by having never gone to Jack's Wife Freda. The recipes in this book look absolutely delicious and are interwoven with pieces of history. This is way more than your average cookbook!

Didn't have the opportunity to read this as I do not download PDFs, only to Kindle.  Looks like an excellent book though.

Jack's Wife Freda: Cooking from New York's West Village by Maya Jankelowitz et. al. is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early March.

Chaptered simply into breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks, and dessert, this book offers recipes from owner Dean Jankelowitz' grandma's Jewish kitchen with an Israeli and South African (which is, in turn, Malaysian, African, Indian, Dutch, and Portuguese) flair. The entire book is written in a familiar, welcoming, accepting, part-of-the-family voice and is dotted with quirky, hand-drawn sketches of ingredients and kitchen tools among the many, many colorful, closeknit photographs. I especially loved and carefully noted the recipes for piri piri spice, zucchini chips, matzo ball soup (cue the celestial angelic choir), duck bacon, pea & ricotta toasts, malva pudding, prego sammich, Durban mussels, and, believe me, if I could give this book a 6-star review, I would!