Jack’s Wife Freda – Cookbook, Restaurant, and a Love Story Generations Old
April 13, 2017 by JennyJack’s Wife Freda: Cooking From
New York’s West Village by Dean and Maya Jankelowitz is a
crush-worthy book. From it’s funky green cover with the image of
Dean’s grandmother, Freda, to the photographs, recipes and overall
cool vibe of this book – I am smitten.
Jack’s Wife
Freda are a pair of wildly popular restaurants that deliver
Jewish comfort-food to New York’s Greenwich Village. It’s books
like this that make me miss being a New Yorker (living there
fifteen years and marrying a New Yorker makes me an honorary one).
In February when I’m back to the city, save me a table Dean and
Maya because I’m bringing my stretchy pants.
Recipes include Orange Blossom Pancakes, Mustard Seed-Crusted Tofu and Peri Peri Chicken Wings making sure that breakfast to dinner is covered. I’ve made the Peri Peri Chicken Wings so far for a quick dinner one night and they were fabulous. The wonderful problem with all these truly great cookbooks I feature is that there aren’t enough meals in the day but like the good Midwestern girl that I am, I will try harder.
Dean and Maya, the couple that own Jack’s Wife Freda are as quaint as the restaurant itself. Their story begins with Freda, Dean’s grandmother, who met Jack in Johannesburg in the 1930’s and were wed. Fast forward to Dean who packed his meager belongings as a teenager and began his great adventure to America. In 2003, Dean met Maya who had come to New York City to find “her spark” which turned out to be Dean. The igniting of their two creative spirits was the beginning of a delicious immigrant love story.
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