The Jewish Kitchen

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The Jewish Kitchen
Jewish cooking is the daily expression of not only religious beUefs, but also a cultural and family history. The recipes passed from one generation to another tell their own story of a family's past. An historically peripatetic people, Jewish communities can be found in every corner of the globe. Obliged by religion to adhere to the dietary laws of kashrut, Jewish cooks have adapted local cuisines to reflect their culture. When recreating an old recipe in a new land, they have worked with the available ingredients to produce dishes that unite religion with necessity, and past with present. Delicious hybrids, these dishes teU their own tale of Jewish families, their history and their culture.
The laws of kashrut deal with what is permitted or kosher (fit to eat) and what is trayf (forbidden); with the separation of meat from milk products. Accordingly, Jewish Kitchen is divided into three chapters - Meat, Dairy and Pareve (neutral). With a diverse... Tovább

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The Jewish Kitchen
Jewish cooking is the daily expression of not only religious beUefs, but also a cultural and family history. The recipes passed from one generation to another tell their own story of a family's past. An historically peripatetic people, Jewish communities can be found in every corner of the globe. Obliged by religion to adhere to the dietary laws of kashrut, Jewish cooks have adapted local cuisines to reflect their culture. When recreating an old recipe in a new land, they have worked with the available ingredients to produce dishes that unite religion with necessity, and past with present. Delicious hybrids, these dishes teU their own tale of Jewish families, their history and their culture.
The laws of kashrut deal with what is permitted or kosher (fit to eat) and what is trayf (forbidden); with the separation of meat from milk products. Accordingly, Jewish Kitchen is divided into three chapters - Meat, Dairy and Pareve (neutral). With a diverse international flavour, the recipes include, among others. Curaçao chicken soup; Baghdad beef with okra; Lamalo lamb tagine with almonds and prunes; spicy Libyan fish; Moroccan chicken with dates; Venetian pumpkin risotto; Hungarian soured cream and spice cake; chocolate babka; linzertorte; and the mouthwatering summer fruit borscht.
The stories of nine Jewish families and communities appear through the book. They teU of travel across contents; family celebrations; reunions and separations; war and peace. Each story is accompanied by a recipe and, among others, reveal the dishes cooked by Cuban Jews in Miami, and by Polish Jews in Australia. A delicious, international fusion cuisine, food from the worldwide Jewish kitchen is as diverse as its cultural heritage. Vissza