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A Taste of the Past: The Daily Life and Cooking of a Nineteenth-Century Hungarian-Jewish...
by Andras Koerner
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$18.98
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Features
Paperback: 444 pages
Publisher: University Press of New England; New Ed edition August 31, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 158465595X
ISBN-13: 978-1584655954
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
From Booklist
A Taste of the Past serves as both historical record and cookbook. Koerner tells the story of his great-grandmother, a Jewish woman growing up in a nineteenth-century Hungarian town and assimilating into the dominant gentile culture. She left behind a trunkful of recipes, and from these, 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. Mark Knoblauch
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
--This text refers to the
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Product Review
"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
"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
"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
Reader Reviews
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Engages all your senses, January 23, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
This review is from: A Taste of the Past: The Daily Life and Cooking of a Nineteenth-Century Hungarian-Jewish Homemaker (Hardcover)
The book really brings to life a community that was wiped out by the Holocaust. The description of life in the small city in Hungary is vivid and the amazing illustrations are a great complement. The easy-to-follow recipes round out the experience.
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A Taste of the Past: The Daily Life and Cooking of a Nineteenth-Century Hungarian-Jewish...
by Andras Koerner
Available from Amazon
$18.98
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