JUST NOT KOSHER

My earliest memories of cooking date back to the 1950s, when my Auntie Eva returned home from America. She would regale us with stories about fruits and vegetables from ‘over there' that were yet to make an appearance in post-war Britain. They were the stuff of movies, as exotic as Carmen Miranda's headdresses and unlike anything to be found in any British greengrocer. It was at her elbow that I first started to cook. Nothing elaborate of course, but that didn't matter. I was hooked... My antecedents were Mittel- European Jews. Chicken fat, potatoes, pot roasts and gefilte fish are the foundations of my culinary heritage. My mother, ahead of her time in concerns about food additives, was very health-conscious for her day. She, Auntie Eva, and the generations that preceded them have left a two-fold legacy in my own cooking: a love of good ingredients and a wicked delight in indulgence... Just Not Kosher combines recipes from the kitchen of Steven Morris and photography from the camera..