Early Jewish Cookbooks : : Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History / / András Koerner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Koerner, András,
• MitwirkendeR: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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 bólesz, 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 András 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: COOKBOOKS AND A RECIPE COLLECTION -- PART TWO: CULINARY CULTURE -- EPILOGUE: HUNGARY’S PIONEERING ROLE IN EARLY JEWISH COOKBOOKS -- GLOSSARY -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF RECIPES -- INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS