The Jewish Kitchen - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840914939 ISBN 13: 9781840914931

Publisher: Conran Octopus Ltd

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author

Clarissa Hyman is an award-winning food-travel writer and restaurant reviewer whose work has appeared in the Times, The Telegraph, Country Living, Food and Travel, Waitrose Food Illustrated, Manchester Evening News and Carlton Food Network's Simply Food. She has twice been nominated for the prestigious Travelex writing award and in 2002 was awarded the title Glenfiddich Food Writer of the Year. Clarissa began her media career as a producer for Granada Television and maintains a TV presence appearing as a food industry commentator on programmes such as BBC Watchdog. She is the author of Cucina Siciliana also by Conran Octopus. This is her second book.

From Publishers Weekly

In this wonderfully picturesque and well-written collection of kosher recipes and reminiscences from years gone by, Hyman recreates not only recipes, but also the stories and people behind them. Soups like Café Scheherazade Borscht and meat dishes such as Green Masala Chicken Curry evoke memories from Jewish communities around the world and represent the diversity of tradition and food among Diaspora Jews. Mouth-watering pictures of Pineapple Fritters a la Celestine and Ma'amoul, a Middle Eastern pastry, face pictures of modern Jews in a Jerusalem market and old Jewish shoemakers in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, a juxtaposition that emphasizes the connections between each community and its unique tastes. Hyman (Cucina Siciliana) explains that Jewish cooking "is also a portable concept, a statement of identity that journeys in mental baggage across continents, war-zones and social upheaval, through good times and bad, emigration and re-settlement, into exile and back-a place of refuge in times of trouble. Sometimes that baggage takes physical form-the heavy iron casserole dish or brass mortar and pestle transported to a new life in a new land. Mostly it is an expression of family values, an assertion of stability in a world of chaos." (Hyman also includes a brief but valuable introduction that succinctly explains kashrut, the Sabbath, and the motifs of the various Jewish holidays.) This delightful cookbook will enhance any kitchen, kosher or not, and will take the reader on a turbulent but rewarding ride through Jewish history.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Conran Octopus Ltd
• ISBN 10: 1840914939
• ISBN 13: 9781840914931
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English