And what about the taste? Talk, book launch and food tasting

Sima Beeri is a lecturer in Yiddish at UCL. She has always been passionate about food and cooking for friends and family and loves experimenting with new ingredients and ideas. Having grown up in Lithuania and Israel before settling in England 30 years ago, she has ended up with a large collection of recipes on scraps of paper in five different languages. In addition, many of the dishes she cooks she learnt from her mother and mother-in-law many years ago and of course these were not written down. 

She wrote this book to pass on these recipes to her two sons and their families along with stories about the people and places from which they came. It is a domestic cookbook of recipes for everyday and special occasions. Most of all she wanted to write a book that makes it easy to improvise and adapt recipes, as she has always done, depending on whom one is cooking for, what's in season, and what's in the cupboard.

Come along and taste some of Sima's recipes, have a glass of wine and buy the book!