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at Zibby Owens. Adina Sussman is the author of Shabbat, a New York Times best-selling

cookbook, Shabbat, recipes and rituals from my table to years, which was released in September of

2023. It's the follow-up to Sababa, which was named a Best Fall 2019 cookbook by the New York

Times, Bon Appetit, and Food and Wine. The co-author of 15 cookbooks, Adina's three most

recent collaborations, including cravings, and Craving cravings hungry for more with Chrissy Teigen

were New York Times bestsellers. A lifelong visitor to Israel, who has been writing about that

country's food culture for almost 20 years. Adina lives, cooks, and writes in Tel Aviv, where she

lives in the shadow of that city's Carmel Market with her husband, Jay Schofet. You can follow her

on Instagram at Adina Sussman.

Welcome, Adina. I'm so glad to have you here on Totally Booked with Zibby. I know we were

already just chatting for a while, but now for the official podcast as the author of Shabbat and

Sababa and just such a force in this whole world of food and Judaism and everything,

it's really wonderful of you to come on. So thank you. Thank you for having me. It's an honor to be here.

And I feel like we know each other better than we do because I think authors and many intersecting

venn diagrams of friends and people over, you know, a short time. So, and I'm glad I got to meet you in person before we doing the podcast in Toronto. So thank you so much for having me. And by the way, I don't even think I told you this. When you came, so when we saw each other by the AV little room over there, I dropped my jacket like on the side because I was holding it, and I wanted

to, like, give you a hug and say hello or whatever. And then after the event ended in the synagogue, I came back to get my jacket, and it had fallen in this garbage can, but the garbage can was full of water. So I went to pull out my coat, and it was like soaked, and then I didn't have a coat and it was so cold in Toronto and I was like, oh my gosh. Anyway, so then we replaced my

coat. So now when I wear my coat, I think about you. You didn't know that, but it's true. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Well, your cookbooks are amazing. You're amazing. Why don't you just tell people a little bit, go back and like, where did this whole thing come from? How did you start writing

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