The Yiddish Family Cookbook / Dos Familien Kokh-Bookh
Authored by H. Braun Translated by Beverly B. Weingrod Step back into the world of our mothers and grandmothers! Weingrod's translation of H. Braun's Dos Familien Kokh Bookh evokes the smells, the nostalgia, the wisdom, and of course the recipes of the old Yiddish kitchen. This cookbook combines a nutritionist's regard for health with the plenty and culinary experience of the New World. The nuances of cooking in America were eagerly followed by the Jewish women of the early 1900s, hungry to adapt to their new land, while keeping the laws of kashrut and absorbing up-to-date information about healthy eating. The English translation of a large and representative portion of the original book includes the charming introduction to food categories, replete with their cautions and admonitions. It retains the familiar cadence, syntax and lilt of Yiddish in the informal manner of neighborly advice combined with old traditional wisdom. The actual recipes, over 200, allow a peek into the heart of the Jewish kitchen of those days: the ingredients that were available, how to preserve food essentials, and ways to avoid questionable products and merchants. Above all, the book claims the remarkable ability, under these early conditions, to turn out meals - as the subtitle suggests - in the style of American, French, Italian and German cooking. Hasia Diner, in a comprehensive introduction to the book, applies her extensive knowledge of early immigrant foodways to place Dos Familien Kokh Bookh in historic context: "...anyone interested in food history, American Jewish history, Yiddish culture, women's history, and the history of the great East European Jewish migration to the United States will have a chance to experience that culture through its food and food ways." Publication Date: Oct 2010 ISBN/EAN13: 1452897425 / 9781452897424 Page Count: 190 Binding Type: US Trade Paper Trim Size: 7" x 10" Language: English Color: Black and White To order: https://www.createspace.com/3457400 Beverly Weingrod will be speaking on Nov 7th in Los Angeles. She can be reached by email at brachaweing...@gmail.com Shabbat shalom. --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
