The book is well presented and easy to navigate with pastel-coloured pages sparsely illustrated, Princess-style, with handbags, shoes and earrings. There are chapter introductions full of light-hearted witticisms and even a glossary of Yiddish terms at the back – most of which are hardly essential for the Jewish cook – such as shmerrill (idiot) and shluff (nap) – but make for amusing reading.

Feasts and Festivals contains the standard recipes every kosher cook should have: chicken soup, potato kugel, honey cake, and so on, making it a handy, if basic, resource for kosher food on any occasion. The cookbook could have benefited by including recipes for more exotic and unusual cuisine, because – let’s face it – which kosher cook doesn’t already have a recipe for chicken soup, kugel and honey cake? Tarn and Fine offer a glimpse of promise by providing a few exciting recipes, such as the posh-sounding green olive tapenade and the enticing melon, pomegranate and ginger salad, but although these aren’t standard kosher nosh, they don’t fully represent what modern gastronomy has to offer.

Another letdown is the absence of photographs. Although images of shoes might illustrate the Jewish Princess side of the book, it does little to aid the focus on food, begging the question whether Feasts and Festivals is intended to be an actual cookbook, or if it is simply going for the shtick of being a book for Jewish Princesses who would rather talk about their Jimmy Choos than make chicken soup.