On cookbooks

[avrelia]

I love cookbooks. Do you? I loved to leaf through it and imagine myself cooking an unlimited number of simple yet delicious or outrageously complicated meals. I don't have to read a cookbook from cover to cover to get a proper enjoyment out of it, no do I have to actually cook. I love the color photos of prepared meal, but much more than that I

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[gobi_rex]

Eeep, I hope this comment goes through, my browser is berserk lately

[jonesiexxx]

There's no indiginous Jewish cuisine - although there prolly would have been had we not been kicked out of Israel by the Romans in 77 AD.

Jews just adapted what was available regionally wherever they settled. Back in the middle ages, there was only local cooking. They'd change things to make them kosher and meet holiday traditions. That was it.

I have a wonderful cookbook called "Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews" by Edda Servi Machlin. It's mostly an Italian cookbook that's kosher, of course. But seeing what was traditional at Italian Jewish homes for Passover or the Sabbath was a revelation to me with my Polish background.