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Book of Jewish Food Paperback – International Edition, August 3, 1999

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'No-one will ever produce a richer, or more satisfying feast of the Jewish experience.' - Simon Schama 'One can't imagine a better food book than this, ever: for the reader and the cook.' - Nigella Lawson, Vogue 'THE BOOK OF JEWISH FOOD deserves its definitive article. It should stand as the book for many years... It is not likely to be surpassed.' - The Telegraph 'Manna from Heaven.' - Independent on Sunday
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    Penguin UK
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    August 3, 1999
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  6. ISBN-10
    0140466096
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    978-0140466096
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Claudia Roden is a cookbook writer and anthropologist based in the UK. She grew up in Cairo and studied in both Paris and London. She has published multiple bestsellers including the international award-winning The Book of Jewish Food, and she revolutionised Western attitudes to Middle Eastern cuisines in 1968 with her bestselling cookbook, A Book of Middle Eastern Food. Aside from her writing career Roden has presented cookery shows on the BBC and she is co-chair of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin UK; New Ed edition (August 3, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140466096
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140466096
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.8 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Claudia Roden was born in Cairo, educated in Paris and London, where she has lived for many years. Widely admired as both a great cook and a fine writer, she has written classic works on Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cookery and, most recently, her award-winning The Book of Jewish Food.

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martin w.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully book, history and great recipies
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2023
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This is a great cookbook for every one, history great directions and ingredients.Most things are in your pantry
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HeyJudy
5.0 out of 5 stars A work of genius; breath-taking in its scope
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2006
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Claudia Roden's opus, THE BOOK OF JEWISH FOOD, must be considered the definitive work on the history of the cuisine of the Jewish people.

Anyone wishing to own a single Jewish cookbook need look no further than THE BOOK OF JEWISH FOOD.

This is a work of amazing scholarship, tantamount to a doctoral dissertation which clearly would earn honors; a Nobel laureate if that award were to be granted for cookery books.

Roden takes on a subject that almost is too vast, covering every area in which there ever has been a Jewish population, including Ethiopia, India and China.

She not only presents a large variety of recipes typical of each separate region, but she illustrates both the similarities of these recipes and their differences.

The food, well, the food is marvelous; delicious enough in the description that one's mouth waters merely reading the text.

This book is much more than a cookbook. It is a work of social anthropology and food historiography, with recipes that are--yes!--good enough to eat.

THE BOOK OF JEWISH FOOD is a work of genius. It clearly is the definitive Jewish cookbook for the coming millennia.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best book on Jewish Food and related history ever!
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2018
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This is my go-to book for Friday night dinners and every Jewish festival when we have people round. I love trying things from around the world rather than just the familiar same old family dishes. I also love all the stories and history which she includes amongst all the recipes, brings the dishes alive and makes me want to cook them more. Even my husband likes to read the book as he's interested in Jewish history. I have bought so many copies of this book now for friends, teachers etc and it has made a great wedding and Batmitzvah gift too (even Barmitzvahs as don't wish to be sexist!).
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Collage707
5.0 out of 5 stars The best, most informative and beatiful book on Sephardic Jewish Cookery.
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2021
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I am a cookbook collector, and this book by Claudia Rodin has to be among my very favorites. It opens the world of Sephardic Jewish (and other Jewish) cookery with intriguing photographs and informative text. I just gave a copy as a gift to a newly married couple. Of my 1500 cookbooks, if I had to choose 5, this would be among them. Yes, I also cook, besides collecting books!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding cookbook
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2022
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Fast delivery, great customer service, and excellent condition on a used book.
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BRIAN & BRYN MACLEOD
5.0 out of 5 stars Book of Jewish food-- A wonderful journey of taste and History !
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2010
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This is a wonderful romp through the pages of history as it relates to the Jewish people and food. Easy to follow recipes that taste great... But much more than that it is a history of the Jewish people and their lives as it relates to their food. Covering everything from dietary laws to their migration.
With interesting comments and stories and photos it is a wealth of information. I just enjoyed reading it.
The author spent a great deal of time on research and it shows. If you enjoy food, if you enjoy history, if you enjoy a cook book that has great photos this is a book that you will find facinating.
It is a book that you will not only treasure for its recipes but also for its information.This is one of the best cookbooks I have ever read or used about Jewish food.
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seattlepatricia
4.0 out of 5 stars The Book of Jewish Food
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2007
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This beautiful book is meticulously researched to provide a really inclusive view of Jewish history that explains Jewish food. The recipes are perfect--foods your Bubby made for both every day and holidays. Like most ethnic food, these aren't complicated recipes and your mouth waters just reading them. I never had an urge to make pickles but now I can't wait for next summer's cucumber harvest. The book itself really is gorgeous, too. It's a big hardback with wonderful photographs and illustrations detailing Sephardic and Ashkenazy foods and customs as well as world regions that were part of the diasphora, but you certainly don't have to be Jewish to appreciate any part of this book.
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Sherab K
5.0 out of 5 stars Way beyond average
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2015
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An extraordinary book, much more than a cookbook. It presents a world of Jewish history but in such a way that it is relevant to the food, the recipes being provided. You get the atmosphere of the kitchens in which the recipes might typically have been made and what social framework they were part of. The volume is divided into Ashkenazi and Sephardic sections, so it really gives the reader a world of Jewish life and cookery. The recipes themselves are very practical and workable for a modern kitchen. The ones I've tried have worked brilliantly. With its great diversity of content and the sheer number of recipes, it is an unusually rich offering, and it turns out, a very competent one.
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halo
5.0 out of 5 stars Más que un libro de recetas
Reviewed in Spain on August 1, 2022
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El valor de este libro no son sus recetas, sino sus referencias históricas y cultarales respecto del judaísmo. Una joya
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Bill Medley
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible book
Reviewed in Australia on January 30, 2024
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This cookbook is fantastic. A real eye-opener. Love the pictures & the recipes. Very fast delivery.
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Jan Onderwater aus NL
5.0 out of 5 stars Geschichte der Jüdische Küche
Reviewed in Germany on July 3, 2017
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Diese buch ist eine Sammlung von Rezepte, aber viel mehr als das. Es ist die Geschichte der Jüdische Küche, ihre Ursprung. Die Jüdische Küche in mittleren osten, Jüdische Küche in Nord Afrika, Jüdische Küche in Ost Europa und Russland, Jüdische Küche in Mittel und West Europa.
Es fallt in Zwei hauptgruppen aus einander Ashkenazi, Nordeuropa und Sephardic, Südeuropa/Arabisch. Auch wenn man nicht kochen will ist dies ein tolles buch um einfach nur die Geschichten zu lesen.
Ich kaufte es auf Englisch, es ist aber Auch verfügbar in D Übersetzung von Margot Fischer (
Das Buch der Jüdischen Küche: Eine Odyssee von Samarkand nach New York
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Truly Sirius
5.0 out of 5 stars An Ethnography As Well As A Cookbook.
Reviewed in Canada on September 27, 2016
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This book addresses so many different communities. The Ashkenaz are addressed relatively briefly, and the book focuses on the huge range and variety of Sephardic cuisine. For me, this is fine, as Ashkenazi cuisine has been really well represented in the cookbook canon.
So far the recipes that I have tried have worked well. Some of them call for ingredients that are difficult for me to obtain, particularly the regional varieties of sausage that some recipes call for. However, Ms. Roden provides enough detail about the composition of these sausages that I have been able to find substitutes. Her chapter on Dafina and Hamin details some of the Sephardic versions of cholent. I am going to see if I can adapt some of these to the pressure cooker.
Even if you don't make a single recipe, this book is a fascinating ethnography through the lens of cuisine and daily life.
Some readers might miss photographs of the food - instead, Ms. Roden has chosen photographs showing the practices and customs of various diaspora groups.
I heartily recommend The Book of Jewish Food for readers interested in learning about the history of the diaspora, as well as their recipes.
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Ann Rivers
5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2014
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i wanted this book years ago, but I was given Evelyn Rose instead. I am not Jewish but I love the total cosmopolitanism of the food. I find the history of food really interesting like the crossover of Jewish and Chinese food.(Szechuan). The only thing missing are samples of Japanese Jewish food .

Lovely illustrations which are time capsules of lost cultures but also incredible ingredients which one sources through Health Food shops but were part of a staple diet of quite poor people. This suggests that people might have been quite healthy on a very restricted diet .I love reading it as much as using it.
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