Tastes of faith : : Jewish eating in the United States /

Tastes of faith : : Jewish eating in the United States / / Steven J. Ross, editor ; Leah Hochman, guest editor ; Lisa Ansell, assosciate editor.

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“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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Superior document:Jewish Role in American Life ; Volume 15
TeilnehmendeR:
Ross, Steven J.,
Hochman, Leah,
Ansell, Lisa,
Place / Publishing House:West Lafayette, Indiana : : Purdue University Press for the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Jewish role in American life ; Volume 15.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 152 pages :); illustrations ;
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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.

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