Shaya : An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel / Alon Shaya with Tina Antolini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaya, Alon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, Israeli.

Genre:

cookbooks.

Cookbooks.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 412 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

Summary:

"Alon Shaya's is no ordinary cookbook. It is a memoir of a culinary sensibility that begins in Israel and wends its way from the U.S.A. (Philadelphia) to Italy (Milan and Bergamo), back to Israel (Jerusalem) and comes together in the American South, in the heart of New Orleans. It's a book that tells of how food saved the author's life and how, through a circuitous path of (cooking) twists and (life-affirming) turns the author's celebrated cuisine--food of his native Israel with a creole New Orleans kick came to be, along with his award-winning New Orleans restaurants: Shaya, Domenica, and Pizza Domenica, ranked by Esquire, Bon Appétit, and others as the best new restaurants in the United States."-- Amazon.com.

Shaya's memoir begins in Israel and wends its way from the U.S.A. to Italy, back to Israel, and comes together in the American South, in the heart of New Orleans. Shaya tells of how food saved his life and how, through a circuitous path of (cooking) twists and (life-affirming) turns his celebrated cuisine-- food of his native Israel with a creole New Orleans kick-- came to be.

Contents:

Echoes of Israel. My grandmother's peppers and eggplants ; Show-and-tell borekas ; Solo hamantashen ; Fishing with my father

Rebellion and redemption. A butcher and a baker ; Arrested for the munchies ; Home ec hero ; Wood ovens and butterflies ; Trayf and tribulation ; Vegas or bush ; Steak for my Saba ; Boss man ; Safta's last lutenitsa

Finding home in the South. The lost crab cakes of Katrina ; Red beans to the rescue ; Manischewitz for Willie Mae ; Day off for dates ; Not so semplice

An Italian sojourn. A bed by the dough mixer ; A real live Nonna! ; My Italian guardian angel ; Enzo the pizzaiolo ; From Sunday to Domenica

Homecoming. Family meal ; The reluctant Israeli chef ; An Israeli restaurant in New Orleans

Essentials.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection - Dealing with historical and current documentation of food-ways, restaurants, recipes, folk-medicine, chefs, culinary education, nutrition, home economy, etc.

Other Format:

Online version: Shaya, Alon, author. Shaya

ISBN:

9780451494160

0451494164

OCLC:

974612719