Kissing Kosher

By: Jean Meltzer

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg

"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.

Very cute!

This is my first book by this author. As I am Jewish I enjoyed the Jewish content. But I did NOT enjoy the mispronunciation of basic Yiddish words like “tuchas” . Can’t someone teach the narrators how to pronounce key words in the story? Very annoying but still the book was fun and enjoyable to listen to.

A thoroughly surprising romance

I absolutely loved the book. It’s a quirky, sweet, funny, and overtly Jewish love story with enough twists and surprises to keep me guessing. It’s truly unique. The emphasis on chronic pain especially connected me to the story.

LOVE!!!!

This is a fantastic love story! All the characters are superb! The narration is perfect! After listening to this book, I bought the physical book. Because I just had to have it!

Chronic illness representation

I liked the Jewish rituals and conversation as well as the representation of chronic illness. I really enjoyed Thor relationship.

Excellent storytelling

Excellent storytelling!! This story does a beautiful job of telling the perspective of a person living with chronic pain and the challenges faced. but it doesn't do it in a boring or robotic way. Instead, it's wrapped up in real situations that come up in daily living, it has relatability, and it touches on how a person is impacted when navigating relationships. This story also does a great job with adding family drama and long standing grudges. i realllllly enjoyed this book and also the narrator.