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Early Jewish Cookbooks: Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History

Early Jewish Cookbooks: Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History

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JudaismAnthropologyJewish & Kosher Cooking

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ISBN10: 9633864291
ISBN13: 9789633864296
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: Jun 20 2022
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries' 2022 Judaica Bibliography Award.

The seven essays in this volume focus such previously unexplored subjects as the world's first cookbook printed in Hebrew letters, published in 1854, and a wonderful 19th-century Jewish cookbook, which in addition to its Hungarian edition was also published in Dutch in Rotterdam. The author entertainingly reconstructs the history of bólesz, a legendary yeast pastry that was the specialty of a famous, but long defunct Jewish coffeehouse in Pest, and includes the modernized recipe of this distant relative of cinnamon rolls. Koerner also tells the history of the first Jewish bookstore in Hungary (founded as early as in 1765!) and examines the influence of Jewish cuisine on non-Jewish food.

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