Gursha: Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens, from Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond by Beejhy Barhany and Elisa Ung
(Knopf)
April 1, 2025
BEEJHY BARHANY, owner of the Tsion Cafe in the Sugar Hill neighbourhood of Harlem, was spurred by post-October 7 antisemitic vandalism to secure kosher certification for her decade-old New York eatery. Her cookbook includes café menu items like shiro wat, gomen, and injera (chickpea stew, braised collard greens, and fermented teff flatbread, respectively) alongside recipes for Yemeni pancakes and jollof rice from West Africa, Sudanese doughnuts, and Queen of Sheba chocolate cardamom cake. Profiles of fellow members of the Beta Israel community of Ethiopian Jews who found a new home in Harlem round out the book. Marc Weisblott
