Inside the Jewish Bakery: Recipes and Memories from the Golden Age of Jewish Baking Tapa dura - 2011

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

2011 hardcover as pictured. This book chronicles the history and traditions of Eastern European Jewish baking and presents many classic recipes. Binding is firm. Blue boards with white stamping show minimal wear. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear. Recipe amounts are given in four different measurements: volume, onces and pounds, metric units and Baker's percentages. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s (D4)

This is a book of enormous importance both as social history and for its traditional recipes. Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg have managed to artfully entwine bread and Jewish cultural identity like the very challah that has become its popular symbol. I learned many things I hadn't previously known and wanted to capture in my own loaves the tears I felt welling in my eyes as I was reminded, through their words, that bread is always more than just bread.--Peter Reinhart author of The Bread Baker's Apprentice
Not just a cookbook, Inside the Jewish Bakery will take readers on an intellectually satisfying and sensually gratifying journey, not only "inside the Jewish bakery," but to the heart and soul of Ashkenazi Jewish life. Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg, in this beautifully written, genre-defying work, offer a fine summary of the scholarly literature as a way to provide a context for this foray into an intimate part of Jewish life in Europe and America—the bakery.--Hasia R. Diner, New York… Leer más