'The Chicken Soup Manifesto'

(JTA) - I fell in love with Jenn Louis' latest cookbook "The Chicken Soup Manifesto" at first sight. The James Beard-nominated chef has curated a collection of over 100 beautifully photographed chicken soup recipes, which allowed me to vicariously travel the globe with my favorite comfort food as a guide. What more could an Ashkenazi gal with wanderlust wish for?

When I got a chance to chat with Louis, she was as vibrant as her book.

Like me, her prototypical chicken soup was her mother's matzah ball soup, which she made on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. The recipe is there, on page 62, the matz...