Early Jewish Cookbooks: Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History

by Andras Koerner

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 b lesz, a legendary yeast...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9633864291
• ISBN13: 9789633864296
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher