I find all of the Claudia Roden books to be especially kosher-friendly. One of my favorite old books of hers is A Book of Middle Eastern Food. I didn't realize until I had it for a while that it wan't specifically meant for the kosher cook.
Another oldie, which I still use quite often,is Mimi Sheraton's From My Mother's Kitchen. I very much enjoy the chapters in which she relates warm, loving stories about her traditional Jewish family and observant grandparents. It's always a shock, then, when she'll casually mention (or have a recipe for) something blatantly treif. But most of the recipes are for traditional Jewish foods.
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