A Second Generation Chef Updates His Grandmothers' Food

Jeremy Salamon's new cookbook has some familiar dishes

Many people credit their grandmothers as inspirations for their culinary careers. One of them is Jeremy Salamon, the owner of Agi’s Counter in Brooklyn. At his cafe, he’s updated the recipes he learned from his two Hungarian-Jewish grandmothers, Agi and Arlene.

Now, those recipes are collected in his first cookbook, Second Generation: Hungarian and Jewis…