A blessing of bread : the many rich traditions of Jewish bread baking around the world / Maggie Glezer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glezer, Maggie.

Contributor:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bread.

Jewish cooking.

International cooking.

Jewish cookery.

Cookery, International.

Local Subjects:

Bread.

Jewish cookery.

Cookery, International.

Penn Provenance:

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Physical Description:

336 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Artisan, [2004]

Summary:

A Blessing of Bread grew out of an interview that author Maggie Glezer conducted with a rabbi's wife about the symbolism of challah, that bakery staple deeply rooted in Jewish traditions. Captivated by the myriad meanings in every twist of the bread's braid, she spent years doing research and recipe testing. The result is this landmark guide to the amazing variety of Jewish breads found in communities all over the world, from Guatemala to Russia and everywhere in between.

In it are more than 60 impeccably tested recipes, both old and new, for challah and other Sabbath and holiday loaves and an exploration of the rich symbolism of their history, the rituals governing their baking and eating, and the sacred texts and commentaries from which these rituals derive.

There are best-ever recipes for babka and honey cake, bagels, matzot, crackers, and everyday breads such as Jewish-deli rye. It is also loaded with totally unexpected breads that thrill, such as anise, almond, and sesame-studded Moroccan Purim bread; the spiced and leaf-wrapped Ethiopian bereketei (whole wheat Sabbath bread); and the pitalike nooni honegi of the Bukharan Jews. Oral histories, ancient legends, shtetl folktales, aphorisms, and proverbs delight and inspire, and stories of grandmothers and great-grandmothers that recall life as it once was complete this volume, the most in-depth and wide-ranging one ever published on the subject.

Contents:

Breads by category

The genesis of challah

A baker's primer

The many shapes of challah

Sourdough essentials

Breads from the Ashkenazi Tradition

Breads from the Sephardic Tradition

Breads from the North African Tradition

Breads from the Near Eastern Tradition

New traditions

The mitzvah of challah.

Notes:

"Book design by Nicholas Caruso."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-329) and index.

Local Notes:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.

Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

1579652107 :

9781579652104

OCLC:

55600926

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