New Cookbook Offers Cannabis-Infused Jewish Classics

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If the idea of lacing traditional Jewish foods — gefilte fish, challah, matzo balls, latkes and kugel — with marijuana makes you wince, then skip right over this. But if reading about what certainly must be the first cookbook to feature such dishes piques your interest, read on.

All of these Jewish classics and more can be found in “The 420 Gourmet: The Elevated Art of Cannabis Cuisine” by JeffThe420Chef (Harper Wave).

The author held what he called his first “Pot Shabbat” last year, catering it in the San Francisco Bay Area. His name and reputation were just getting out there back then, and around the same time he was offered a cookbook deal. This is the result.

While this is definitely not a Jewish cookbook, Jeff comes from an Orthodox background. (He does not identify that way anymore; the father of three left Orthodoxy around the same time that he...

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