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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.

Presto Food Products pamphlet, c 1960s. #1996.296. YUM

Library Highlights

Après "Autour de la table juive", voici "Autour de la cuisine juive": exposition ... / Musée d'art juif de Paris; Sophie Rosenberg. 1995.

Carnegie Treasures Cookbook / Women's Committee Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute; foreword by James Beard; introduction by James M. Walton and John R. Lane. 1st ed., 1984.

The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews / Edda Servi Machlin; illustrated by Susan Gray., 1984.

Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony / Madeleine Pelner Cosman. New York: G. Braziller, 1976.

The Hallah Book: Recipes, History, and Traditions / Freda Reider. Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav, 1987.

Koscher & Co.: über Essen und Religion: [eine Ausstellung des Jüdischen Museums Berlin, 9. Oktober 2009 bis 28. Februar 2010] / Michal Friedlander und Cilly Kugelmann im Auftrag des Jüdischen Museums Berlin. Berlin: Jüdisches Museum; Nicolai, 2009.

Receipt Book 1856 (cookbook) / H.A. Levy. 1856.

Sabbath Fish / Eric G. Freudenstein. New York, 1980.

The Tradition of Jewish Cuisine: State Jewish Museum in Prague, the Klausen Synagogue, April-November, 1989 / Jana Dolez̆elová. Prague: The Museum, 1989.