Tastes of faith Jewish eating in the United States

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,” wrote the eighteenth-century French politician and musician Jean Brillat-Savarin, giving expression to long held assumptions about the role of food, taste, and eating in the construction of cultural identities. Foodways—the cultural, religiou...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ross, Steven Joseph, editor (editor), Hochman, Leah, editor, Ansell, Lisa, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press 2017
2017.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Jewish role in American life ; Volume 15.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009689906306719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Editorial Introduction On Eating and Being Jewish: How Taste Has Shaped Identity
  • Chocolate Migrates to North America with Sephardi Jews
  • Global Jewish Peddling and the Matter of Food
  • A Younger World: Vegetarian Writing and Recipes in Yiddish as Political Strategies
  • Eating Up: The Origins of Bagels and Lox
  • The Feast at the End of the Fast: The Evolution of an American Jewish Ritual
  • Eating My Way through Transparent
  • About the Contributors
  • The USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life.