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Subject Guide: Cooking & Cookbooks

Archival and library highlights found at the Center that relate to cooking, cookbooks, and its significance in Jewish culture.

Ahawah Children's Home, Berlin, c 1930. AR 6427. LBI

Library Highlights

General & Multicultural

 

Baghdad to Bombay: In the Kitchens of My Cousins / Pearl Sofaer. Eastsound, WA: Paper Jam Pub., 2008.

 

The Best of Baghdad Cooking, with Treats from Teheran / Daisy Iny. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1976.

 

The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York / by Claudia Roden. New York: Knopf, 1996.

 

Generations of Mediterranean Sephardic Cooking: Tastily and Lovingly Presented from the Kitchen / Toddy Franco Horowitz. Lenexa, Ks.: Cookbook Pubs., 1995.

 

On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao / Deborah Prinz. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013.

 

Saffron Shores: Jewish Cooking of the Southern Mediterranean / Joyce Goldstein; photographs by Leigh Beisch. San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, 2002.

 

The Sephardic Cooks / Congregation Or-VeShalom Sisterhood. Atlanta, G.A.: 1977.

 

A Taste of History: Recipes Old and New from Philadelphia's Historic Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Kahal Kadosh, Mikveh Israel / Women's Group; Congregation Mikveh Israel. 1987.

 

 

Greece

 

Cuisines de Crète / Nicholas Stavroulakis; traduit de l'anglais par Mireille Mazoyer-Saul et Marianne Bendayan-Grange. Paris: Langues & mondes, l'asiathèque, 1995.

 

Salonika: A Family Cookbook / Esin Eden & Nicholas Stavroulakis. Athens: Talos Press, 1997.

 

Stella's Sephardic Table: Jewish Family Recipes from the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes / Stella Hanan Cohen. Capetown: Hoberman, 2012. 

 

India


Indian-Jewish Cooking / Mavis Hyman. 1992.

 

Iran

 

Iranian Kosher Recipes: Healthy Meals for the Family, Holidays & Joyous Celebrations / Ester Moreh. Great Neck, N.Y.: Ester Chapter of Hadassah, 1998.

 

Persian Food from the Non-Persian Bride: and Other Kosher Sephardic Recipes You Will Love! / Reyna Simnegar. Jerusalem; New York: Feldheim Publishers, 2011.

 

Iraq

 

Flavours of Babylon: Favourite Iraqi Specialties and Other Recipes / Linda Dangoor. Oxted: Waterside, 2011.

 

Iraqi family Cookbook: From Mosul to America / Kay Karim. Fall Church, Va.: Iraqi Family Cookbook, 2006.

 

Mama Nazima's Jewish-Iraqi Cuisine: Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol: Cuisine, History, Cultural References, and Survival Stories of the Jewish-Iraqi / Rivka Goldman. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2006.

 

Spain

 

A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews / David M. Gitlitz & Linda Kay Davidson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

 

Spain: A Culinary Road Trip / Mario Batali with Gwyneth Paltrow; art direction and design by Douglas Riccardi and Lisa Eaton; written with Julia Turshen; photography by Moises Saman; additional photography by Quentin Bacon. New York: Enfield: Ecco; Publishers Group UK , 2008.

 

Syria

 

Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews / Poopa Dweck and Michael J. Cohen; with photography by Quentin Bacon. New York: Ecco, 2007.

 

A Fistful of Lentils: Syrian-Jewish Recipes from Grandma Fritzie's Kitchen / Jennifer Felicia Abadi. Boston: Harvard Common Press, 2002.

 

Kosher Syrian Cooking / Grace Sasson. Brooklyn, N.Y.: G. Sasson, 1988.

 

Turkey

 

Dina'nın Mutfağı: Türk Sefarad Yemekleri / D.Deniz Alphan; Fotoğraflar Hasan Deniz. İstanbul: Doğan Kitap, 2005.

 

Kaybolan ve yaşayan 100 yemek tarifiyle İzmir Sefarad mutfağı / yayımcılar, Ester Antebi [et al.].  2005.

 

The Ottoman Turk and the Pretty Jewish Girl: Real Turkish Cooking / Beyhan Çağri Trock. United States: Cupper James Publishing, 2012.

 

Sefarad Yemekleri / derleyenler Viki Koronyo, Sima Ovadya. Turkey, 1990.