1st Edition
Early Jewish Cookbooks Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History
By András Koerner
Copyright 2022
272 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
PREFACE by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 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, Acknowledgments
Biography
András Koerner was born in 1940 in Budapest. After receiving his degree in architecture he worked for several years as an architect. In 1967, he moved to the United States, where he continued the same career. Since his retirement, he dedicates his time mostly to writing and organizing exhibitions. He is author of the award-winning Jewish Cuisine in Hungary (CEU Press 2019).
