Jews, food, and Spain : the oldest medieval Spanish cookbook and the Sephardic culinary heritage /

"Jews, Food, and Spain" is a scholarly exploration of Sephardi cuisine that touches on the origins of recipes and their cultural importance, as well as on their apparent disappearance as a result of religious persecution, revealing links to antisemitism throughout history"--

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Main Author: Piñer, Hélène Jawhara (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2022.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Part One: The Jews' Place in the Construction of an Andalusian Cuisine (Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries)
  • CHAPTER 1 A Unique "Witness" to Complex Realities
  • CHAPTER 2 The Jewish Stamp in the Kitāb al-ṭabīẖ
  • CHAPTER 3 Jewish and Muslim Food Consumption and Cooking Practices in the Kitāb al-ṭabīẖ
  • CHAPTER 4 Eggplant: The Jewishness Marker
  • Part Two: The Legacy of the Multicultural Cuisine of Al-Andalus (Fourteenth to Seventeenth Century): The Evolution and Perception of Jewish Food
  • CHAPTER 5 The Counterpoint of Christian-Dominated Cookbooks
  • CHAPTER 6 Iberian Literary Works: Witnesses to Food Discrimination against Jews
  • CHAPTER 7 Trends and Evidence: Food as an Identity Marker
  • CHAPTER 8 The Trials of the Inquisition: Written Witnesses of an Oral Transmission of Jewish Skills
  • Part Three: Sephardic Jewish Culinary Heritage: Between Rebirth and the Desire to Recognize a Past Legacy
  • CHAPTER 9 Dishes Common in Spanish Sephardic Cuisine
  • CHAPTER 10 Dishes and Diaspora: From the Kitāb al-ṭabīẖ to the Sephardic Culinary Heritage of the Mediterranean Basin
  • CHAPTER 11 Recipes and Photos of Jewish Dishes from the Kitāb al-ṭabīẖ
  • CHAPTER 12 Recipes and Photos of Iberian Medieval Dishes in the Sephardic Culinary Heritage of the Mediterranean Basin
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index