Early Jewish Cookbooks - Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History (Hardcover)

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 bolesz, 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. In this volume Andras Koerner explores key issues of Hungarian Jewish culinary culture in greater detail and more scholarly manner than what space restrictions permitted in his previous work Jewish Cuisine in Hungary: A Cultural History, also published by CEU Press, which received the prestigious National Jewish Book Award in 2020. The current essays confirm the extent to which Hungarian Jewry was part of the Jewish life and culture of the Central European region before their almost total language shift by the turn of the 20th century.

General

Imprint:	Central European University Press
Country of origin:	Hungary
Release date:	June 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Andras Koerner
Preface by:	Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Professor Emerita of Performance Studies)
Dimensions:	234 x 159 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-963-386-429-6
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Cookery / food & drink etc > National & regional cuisine Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies Books > Food & Drink > National & regional cuisine
LSN:	963-386-429-1
Barcode:	9789633864296

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