The 100 Most Jewish Foods: A Highly Debatable List

$24.95

by Alana Newhouse
2019
Hardcover

Tablet’s list of the 100 most Jewish foods is not about the most popular Jewish foods, or the tastiest, or even the most enduring. It’s a list of the most significant foods culturally and historically to the Jewish people, explored deeply with essays, recipes, stories, and context.

In stock

SKU: jmm197 Categories: ,

Description

Tablet’s list of the 100 most Jewish foods is not about the most popular Jewish foods, or the tastiest, or even the most enduring. It’s a list of the most significant foods culturally and historically to the Jewish people, explored deeply with essays, recipes, stories, and context.

Some of the dishes are no longer cooked at home, and some are not even dishes in the traditional sense (store-bought cereal and Stella D’oro cookies, for example). The entire list is up for debate, which is what makes this book so much fun.

Many of the foods are delicious (such as babka and shakshuka). Others make us wonder how they’ve survived as long as they have (such as unhatched chicken eggs and jellied calves’ feet). As expected, many Jewish (and now universal) favorites like matzo balls, pickles, cheesecake, blintzes, and chopped liver make the list.

The recipes are global and represent all contingencies of the Jewish experience.

Contributors include Ruth Reichl, Éric Ripert, Joan Nathan, Michael Solomonov, Dan Barber, Gail Simmons, Yotam Ottolenghi, Tom Colicchio, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, Maira Kalman, Action Bronson, Daphne Merkin, Shalom Auslander, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and Phil Rosenthal, among many others.

Presented in a gifty package, The 100 Most Jewish Foods is the perfect book to dip into, quote from, cook from, and launch a spirited debate.

“Your gift giv­ing prob­lems are now over—just stock up on The 100 Most Jew­ish Foods. . . . The appro­pri­ate gift for any occasion.” —Jewish Book Council

“[A] love letter—to food, family, faith and identity, and the deliciously tangled way they come together.” —NPR’s The Salt


Get Updates From the Museum

HOURS OF OPERATION

Mon - Thurs 10AM - 5PM
Friday 10AM - 3PM
Saturday CLOSED
Sunday 12PM - 4PM

FOLLOW US!

GET IN TOUCH

1360 N Prospect Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202

(414) 390-5730
[email protected]