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A Taste of the Past: The Daily Life and Cooking of a Nineteenth-Century Hungarian-Jewish Homemaker - Hardcover
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A reconstruction of the daily life and household of Therese (Riza) Baruch (1851-1938), the great-grandmother of the author, Andras Koerner. Based on letters, recipes, personal artifacts and eyewitness testimony, Koerner describes the domestic life of a 19th-century Hungarian Jewish woman.
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A Taste of the Past A beautifully illustrated re-creation of Jewish Hungarian cuisine and life in the nineteenth century. Full description
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"This rich book presents food the way it appears in life: as part of the daily life of a family." "A Taste of the Past serves as both historical record and cookbook . . . Koerner has reconstructed a culinary tradition, updating the recipes to make them reproducible in a modern kitchen. Recalling (but not replicating) traditional Ashkenazic cuisine, these recipes exhibit distinctive spicing and Hungarian influences. Those looking for new desserts would do well to prepare Koerner's unique recipe crossing noodle kugel with bread pudding. Line drawings bring the text to life, and these recipes bring fulfillment to the curious cook seeking a challenge."--Booklist "More than a cookbook, the book is a portrait of a life and a world that no longer exists."--The Jewish Week "The evocative drawings, the decorative initials, and a typeface designed in 1650 by a Hungarian, together make up an aesthetically exclusive book which is a pleasure to open, read, and perhaps, taste from."--The Budapest Sun "What is left of Jewish Moson is memories: family stories, photographs, letters, recipes and now, for the rest of us, Koerner's A Taste of the Past. It is a careful and loving re-creation of a world that met an unhappy death, and for a cookbook; or any other type of book; there is not much finer purpose than that."--The Forward
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- PublisherUniversity Press of New England
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1584652098
- ISBN 13 9781584652090
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages325
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2004 first edition University Press of New England (Hanover, New Hampshire), 6 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches tall hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, embossed beige paper-covered boards over red cloth spine, gilt lettering to spine, xiv, 422 pp. Very slight staining to fore page edges. Otherwise, apart from a few creased page tips, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a very good dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~H~ [2.5P] A Taste of the Past is an entertaining reconstruction of the daily life and household of Therese (Riza) Baruch (1851-1938), the great-grandmother of the author, Andras Koerner. Based on an unusually complete cache of letters, recipes, personal artifacts, and eyewitness testimony, Koerner describes in loving detail the domestic life of a nineteenth-century Hungarian Jewish woman, with special emphasis on the meals she served her family. Based on Riza's letters, part one offers an imaginative sketch of growing up in a religious middle-class family in the 1860s and 70s in an industrial town in western Hungary. Part one also describes Riza's reactions to the dilemmas posed by the early signs of Jewish assimilation. In part two, the heart of the book, Riza has married, moved to a smaller town near the Austrian border, and become the central figure of a large household. Koerner recreates a typical day in the life of Riza and her family, peppering his narrative with recipes of the food she served for breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, afternoon coffee-and-cake, and the much more modest evening meal. Riza's family was religious, and Koerner also describes the special foods (pike in sour aspic, cholent, apple-matzo kugel, and much more) she served to celebrate the Sabbath and the six major Jewish holidays. Short introductions to the recipes describe the evolution of the dishes through the centuries, their role in Jewish culture, and how cultural influences and religious traditions shaped Riza's cooking. More than 125 evocative pen-and-ink illustrations bring Riza's story and her food to life. Seller Inventory # H-0712-12171
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A Taste Of The Past: The Daily Life & Cooking Of A 19th Century Hungarian Jewish Homemaker with 85 authentic recipes adapted for the modern cook
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24.0 x 16.0cms 422pp b/w illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper This book offers an imaginative sketch of growing up in a middle-class in an industrial town in western Hungary (1860s-70s) with the early signs of assimilation. It describes the special foods that Theresa / Riza Baruch served to ceelbrate the six main Jewish holdays etc. Seller Inventory # 20858858
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