Jewish American Food Culture

Subjects:

• Popular Culture » Food
• Multicultural Studies » Jewish Studies

Reviews:

• "Jewish American Food Culture is an essential one-stop resource for every library: this is the source to find our what 'parve' on packaging means, the symbolism of particular foods that are essential to holiday celebrations, what keeping kosher entails, how meals and food rituals are approached differently depending on how religious one is and the land of one's ancestors, and much more."
  —Suite101.com 7/1/2008
• "Jewish American Food Culture encompasses the vast diversity of Jewish Americans—those who observe the Jewish dietary laws of kashrut(keeping kosher), those born into the Jewish faith who do not actively practice the religion, Jews of various European heritages, Arabic-speaking Jewish Americans, the Hasidic Jews of Brooklyn, and intermarried families in the multiethnic suburbs of Los Angeles. Each volume in this series contains a foreword, an introduction, a chronology, line drawings and photos, recipes, a glossary, a resource guide, a selected bibliography, and an index."
  —MultiCultural Review 12/1/2008
• "This book is one in a series on "Food Cultures in America," which intends to show how different ethnic and regional food cultures have become part of American identity. As the authors explain in their introduction, the Jewish contribution to food culture in the US is complicated because of the Diaspora background of US Jews from Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia...Recommended. General and undergraduate collections."
  —CHOICE 2/1/2009
• "Jewish American Food Culture is a welcome new resource for classes in American studies, anthropology, folklore, foodways, Jewish studies, and religious studies. The non-scholarly reader will also enjoy the work. . . . They do an excellent job of covering vast expanses of territory, time, and space -- from the ancient Middle East to contemporary America, and they do so gracefully and with good humor."
  —Gastronomica Spring 2009
• "Jewish American Food Culture offers a good introduction to American Jewish culinary traditions. It is a good addition to high school, public, and synagogue libraries."
  —ARBA 3/1/2009

Table of Contents:

• Series Foreword
  Introduction
  Chronology
  1.Historical Overview
  2.Major Foods and Ingredients
  3.Cooking
  4.Typical Meals
  5.Eating Out
  6.Special Occasions
  7.Diet and Health
  Glossary
  Resource Guide
  Selected Bibliography
  Index

PDF Catalogs:
Greenwood School and Public Library Reference Spring 2008.pdf	Greenwood School and Public Library Reference 2009.pdf