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Zusatztext "Joyce Goldstein provides an excellent guide to these tasty dishes... [this book] should inspire adventurous cooks." Informationen zum Autor Joyce Goldstein was chef and owner of the groundbreaking Mediterranean restaurant Square One in San Francisco. Prior to opening Square One, she was chef at the Chez Panisse Café and visiting executive chef at the Wine Spectator Restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa. Today she is a cooking teacher, consultant to the restaurant and food industries, and prolific cookbook author. Her most recent book is Inside the California Food Revolution: Thirty Years that Changed Our Culinary Consciousness (UC Press, 2013). Klappentext “I’m grateful for this fascinating collection of recipes and lore. Goldstein has a scholar’s inquisitive nature and a chef’s fine-tuned palate—a winning combination. She knows her subject and her audience, and boy, can she cook!”—David Tanis, chef and author of One Good Dish “ Joyce Goldstein has done it again. The New Mediterranean Jewish Table has all the updated yet authentic and delicious recipes of her past cookbooks, as well as charming anecdotes and regional variations of Mediterranean Jewish cooking. You can see the seasoned hand of an experienced cook in all the recipes.”—Joan Nathan, journalist and award-winning author of Jewish Cooking in America “An incredible book written by an incredible cook! Goldstein makes Jewish Mediterranean cooking approachable, sophisticated, and downright delicious.”—Michael Solomonov, chef and owner, Zahav “One of the most impressive recipe collections to be published in many years. Every dish may be tied to ancient traditions, but Goldstein has done such a masterful job of tweaking and updating them for contemporary cooks and tastes and putting them into historical and cultural context that every single one is an enticement to get into the kitchen and cook.”—Arthur Schwartz, author of Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited “Goldstein has a way of layering history, ritual, flavor, and tradition into a sacred way of eating and gathering. She uses culinary traditions to break down the walls that, for so long, have housed separate identities of Middle Eastern Jews. Through food, Joyce is able to bring these groups together while simultaneously celebrating their individuality, both in style and flavor. We all come from somewhere, and this book underscores how thousands of years of cross-continental movement and trade have made room for many cuisines that are not so disparate after all.”—Cortney Burns and Nick Balla, chefs, Bar Tartine “An amazing taste tour of traditional Jewish foods from Tunisia, Spain, Syria, Algeria, Italy, and more. Joyce Goldstein’s deep research and exceptional recipe writing skills make this a book you will use and benefit from for as long as you’re cooking and eating.”—Ari Weinzweig, author of Zingerman’s Guide to Good Eating “Joyce Goldstein remains remarkable not only for her prolific contribution through writing, cooking, and cookbooks about her beloved culinary Mediterranean but also for continuing to broaden all of our cultural and historical horizons and showing how varied these cuisines really are. Who better to enlighten us about the largely unknown melding of the Mediterranean diet and Jewish culinary traditions, centuries old, yet ready to be discovered and celebrated? Old World food in a New World kitchen indeed!”—David Kinch, chef and owner, Manresa Restaurant Zusammenfassung For thousands of years, the people of the Jewish Diaspora have carried their culinary traditions and kosher laws throughout the world. In the United States, this has resulted primarily in an Ashkenazi table of matzo ball soup and knishes, brisket and gefilt...
