James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Joan Nathan contributes regularly to the New York Times, hosted her own show on PBS, and once guest-curated an exhibit at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. It’s her 10 bestselling cookbooks, however — including The Children’s Jewish Holiday Kitchen: 70 Ways to Have Fun with Your Kids and Make Your Family’s Celebrations Special” target=“_blank”>The Children’s Jewish Holiday Kitchen, and the seminal here to register for the Washington Independent Review of Books’ 2014 Books Alive! conference, which takes place Saturday, March 29, in Bethesda, Md.