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New cookbook heralds renaissance in Jewish dining

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Jodie and Jeff Morgan, founders of Covenant Winery, now located in Berkeley

Jodie and Jeff Morgan, founders of Covenant Winery, now located in Berkeley, have written a cookbook that arrives, they say, in the middle of a renewed interest in Jewish dining in the Bay Area. Photo: Ed Anderson

Jodie and Jeff Morgan are co-owners of Covenant Winery, which moved its operation from Napa to West Berkeley in the spring of 2014. “The Covenant Kitchen: Food and Wine for the New Jewish Table” features more than 100 mouth-watering kosher recipes and detailed suggested wine pairings, including for some of Covenant’s own kosher pours. A launch party for the book takes place at the winery on Sixth Street on Sunday (see details below). We spoke with Jeff about the inspiration for the book, and also why he thinks Jewish dining is having its moment in the spotlight.

Congratulations on your first Covenant cookbook. What was your journey both to this book and to the opening of your West Berkeley winery last year?

When we started making kosher wine (almost on a dare) a little more than a decade ago, Jodie and I were not particularly connected to our Jewish roots. With time, and while working with more observant Jewish winemakers in the cellar and throughout the world, we discovered a Jewish community that appealed to us and our sense of belonging. The book chronicles the evolution of our longstanding wine country perspective on daily dining and how we’ve integrated it into a Jewish lifestyle.

Our move to Berkeley was inspired by our desire to live closer to a larger Jewish community than the one that exists in Napa and Sonoma. Plus, I think after more than 25 years in the wine country, we were ready to come back to the city with all its hustle and bustle. It’s great to be able to make our wines in our new urban winery!(...)

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