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The Secret Of Madoff Cooking ;)
Wearing plain aprons and standing in front of a dishwasher, Ruth Madoff and her friend look like two homemakers ready for serious work in the kitchen.
But like so much to do with the Madoff family, all is not as it appears in the photo.
The picture comes from a 1996 cookbook called “The Great Chefs of America Cook Kosher: Over 175 Recipes From America’s Greatest Restaurants.” Mrs. Madoff and her friend, as co-authors, wrote in the book of a high-minded mission: exposing kosher palates to new sensations by collecting dishes from famous restaurant chefs that could be prepared in keeping with Jewish dietary restrictions.
For all the book’s talk of wanting to serve the interests of a “strictly Kosher” crowd, The Daily Mail in London recently reported that Ruth’s husband, Bernard, was quite fond of pork sausages, taboo under any definition of kosher cooking.
Karen MacNeil, a food and wine expert who was given the title of editor of the project, beneath the two executive editors — Mrs. Madoff and her friend Idee Schoenheimer — disclosed in an interview with The New York Times that she was paid to write the cookbook in its entirety.
She said she had no evidence that Mrs. Madoff, who received a master’s degree in nutrition in 1992 from New York University, “ever cooked any of the recipes.”
In the cookbook’s biographical section, Mrs. Madoff referred to herself as “director of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.” She used the same title two years later in a 1998 roster of trustees at the Queens College Foundation.
The book also suggests that she and her collaborators watched the bottom line. The book advises readers who may want additional copies to “send $36.00 (plus $7.65 postage and handling)” to Vital’s address, but notes, “Sorry, no C.O.D.’s please.”
In other words, payment must be upfront.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/bu...0secret&st=cse
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