Kissing Kosher, Jean Meltzer
Kissing Kosher, Jean Meltzer
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Kissing Kosher

Author: Jean Meltzer

Narrator: Dara Rosenberg

Unabridged: 11 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/29/2023


Synopsis

"An unflinchingly honest romance." —Kirkus, starred review

From the author of THE MATZAH BALL and MR. PERFECT ON PAPER comes this hilarious and emotional rivals-to-lovers romance.

Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don’t fall in love…

Avital Cohen isn’t wearing underpants—woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced her to sideline her photography dreams and her love life. It’s all she can do to manage her family’s kosher bakery, Best Babka in Brooklyn, without collapsing.

She needs hired help.

And distractingly handsome Ethan Lippmann seems the perfect fit.

Except Ethan isn’t there to work—he’s undercover, at the behest of his ironfisted grandfather. Though Lippmann’s is a household name when it comes to mass-produced kosher baked goods, they don’t have the charm of Avital’s bakery. Or her grandfather’s world-famous pumpkin spice babka recipe.

As they bake side by side, Ethan soon finds himself more interested in Avital than in stealing family secrets, especially as he helps her find the chronic pain relief—and pleasure—she’s been missing.

But perfecting the recipe for romance calls for leaving out the lies…even if coming clean means risking everything.
 

About Jean Meltzer

Jean Meltzer studied dramatic writing at NYU Tisch and has earned numerous awards for her work in television, including a daytime Emmy. She spent five years in rabbinical school before her chronic illness forced her to withdraw, and her father told her she should write a book—just not a Jewish one because no one reads those. The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah is her fifth novel. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on September 18, 2023

4 stars! Ethan Lippmann is sent by his grandfather to pose undercover at the bakery Best Babka in order to steal their secret recipe for pumpkin spice babka. There he meets Avital, who despite her stern personality Ethan is attracted to almost right away. While working there, Ethan begins to become......more

Goodreads review by Christy on October 05, 2023

4 stars Kissing Kosher was my first book by Jean Meltzer and I enjoyed it so much. It was a book of two rival bakeries and their grandchildren. Avital Cohen runs her family’s bakery, Best Babka in Brooklyn. Ethan Rosenberg Lippmann goes undercover there, as his family owns Lippmann’s Bakery. There is......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on March 27, 2024

Kissing Kosher by Jean Meltzer is a standalone contemporary romance novel. Kissing Kosher is set in the Jewish community and showcases a lot of Jewish traditions along with having a main character dealing with a chronic illness and pain but infuses a lovely romance among the heavier topic involved. F......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on August 31, 2023

The feud between the Lippmanns and the Cohens because of their bakery, Best Babka Bakery in Brooklyn, still continued after all of these years. It continued with another idea by Moishe Lippmann that forced his grandson Ethan to get a job at the bakery and to not reveal who he was or what he was after......more

Goodreads review by Louise on June 11, 2023

4.5 stars In Kissing Kosher (publishing in August), Avital is dealing with chronic pain while trying to run her family’s bakery. Is romance in her future with Ethan, whose family has their own highly successful commercial bakery and has been feuding with Avital’s family for decades? Jean Meltzer is......more