This book is about what makes food Jewish, or better, who and how
one makes food Jewish. Making food Jewish is to negotiate between
the local, regional, and now global foods available to eat and the
portable Jewish taste preferences Jews have inherited from their
sacred texts and calendars. What makes Jewish food "Jewish," and
what makes Jewish eating practices continually viable and
meaningful are not fixed dietary rules and norms, but rather
culinary interpretations and adaptations of them to new times and
places - culinary midrash. Jewish cuisine is a fusion of
interactions, a reflection of displacement, and intentional
positioning and re-positioning vis a vis sacred texts, old and new
lands, Jewish and non-Jewish neighbors, old and new "family"
combinations, re-imaginings of our personal ethnic, gender, and
other identities. Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus questions Jewish identity
in particular, and identity generally as something fixed, stable,
and singular, and unintentional. Jewish food choices are
situational, often temporary, expressions of Jewish identity. It
addresses the tension between what Jewish "authoritative" textual
sources and their proponents say is Jewish food and Jewish eating,
and what Jews actually eat. So while discussing connections between
ancient religious texts and modern Jewish food preferences, this
book does not stop there. Using examples from his experience,
Brumberg-Kraus describes the improvisational characteristics of
gastronomic Judaism as the interplay of texts, tastes, artifacts,
and everyday practices: not only in the classic sacred texts, but
also in Jewish cookbooks and internet blogs on Jewish home cooking;
seasonal intensification of "Jewish" food choices (e.g., latkes at
Chanukah or keeping kosher for Passover); "safe treif;" the
fusion/cultural appropriation of diasporic, "Biblical", and
Palestinian foods in new Israeli cuisine; and the impact of the
environmentalist "New Jewish Food movement" on contemporary Jewish
food choices and identity.
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