The sis­ter­hood is com­prised of Lisa Gold­berg, Mere­lyn Frank Chalmers, Natanya Eskin and Jacqui Israel from Sydney’s Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty. They think of them­selves as their own lit­tle melt­ing pot, which is reflect­ed in their heart-warm­ing and gor­geous books. They live in Syd­ney, Aus­tralia, but come from dif­fer­ent back­grounds. Mere­lyn comes from Perth, with Hun­gar­i­an her­itage. Jacqui start­ed her life on the Syd­ney north shore with an Eng­lish back­ground. Lisa is from Mel­bourne, of Pol­ish stock. Natanya is a Syd­ney girl with Shanghai/​Russian roots. More ideas, more cook­ing and more love!

In 2006 it all began when they start­ed to meet every Mon­day morn­ing – to chop and stir, mince and roll, roast and bake, fry and boil. They tast­ed and ate, laughed and debat­ed, argued and agreed. They culled and vet­ted, test­ed and re-test­ed, and argued and laughed some more. The end result – a curat­ed and fine-tuned col­lec­tion of bril­liant heir­loom recipes and sto­ries to share with the world and pass on to the next gen­er­a­tion. Over a chop­ping board and hot stove, with many cups of tea and the odd piece of cake, a unique bond began to form. They start­ed out as a group of indi­vid­u­als and are now a sis­ter­hood. They want to con­tin­ue to col­lect, test, curate, share and pre­serve those trea­sured recipes from the old­er gen­er­a­tion for their own gen­er­a­tion, and for the future.