Nach Waxman’s Brisket of Beef

Preparation info
  • 8

    portions
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso

Published 1989

  • About

How thrilled Julee was the day Nach Waxman opened Kitchen Arts & Letters in New York—a bookstore full of her obsession: cookbooks! And with an owner as passionate about the subject as she is. We’re grateful to Nach for doing us all such a favor, and for sharing recipes as well. Here’s how he describes this brisket:

“This is a traditional Eastern European dish of the utmost simplicity but with a flavor so distinctive and vigorous that few can believe how elementary it is or how f