Book Talk - The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Fania Lewando's Vegetarian Cookbook, published in Vilna in 1937, is filled with vivid and sometimes astonishing recipes for vegetables, drawn from Jewish tradition, from European cuisine, from the nascent health food movement, and some entirely new inventions. The book was part of a numerically small but culturally relevant wave of works in the Yiddish language on vegetarianism.  This presentation will look at Fania Lewando's extraordinary book in the context of the Jewish vegetarianism of her own time.

Interests: Arts & Culture, Young Adults, Teens, Families
Date: 
February 11, 2016
TIME: 
12:00 AM
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Location: 
Congregation B'nai Emunah
3595 Taraval St
San Francisco, CA 94116
City: 
San Francisco
Cost: 
Free

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Organized By: 
Congregation B'nai Emunah
Speakers: 
Eve Jochnowitz
Eve has been teaching Yiddish Language, Culture, and Literature, as well as Yiddish Foodways and Dance for twenty years. She worked for several years as a cook and baker and received her Ph.D. on the subject of Jewish culinary ethnography in the department of Performance Studies from New York University. She has lectured both in the United States and abroad on food in Jewish tradition, religion, and ritual as well as food in Yiddish performance and popular culture. She blogs in English and Yiddish at inmolaraan.blogspot.com and is the co-host with Rukhl Schaechter Ejdelman, of Est Gezunterheyt! a cooking show in Yiddish.