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Lewando, Fania, approximately 1875-1941?
Subjects
Jewish cooking.
Vegetarian cooking -- Lithuania.
Cooking (Natural foods)
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Lewando, Fania, approximately 1875-1941?
Jewish cooking.
Vegetarian cooking -- Lithuania.
Cooking (Natural foods)
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The
Vilna
vegetarian
cookbook
:
garden-fresh
recipes
rediscovered
and
adapted
for
today
's
kitchen
/ Fania Lewando ; translated from the Yiddish and annotated and
adapted
for the modern
kitchen
by Eve Jochnowitz ; foreword by Joan Nathan.
by
Lewando, Fania, approximately 1875-1941?
Schocken Books, [2015]
Call #:
641.5636 L669v
Subjects
Jewish cooking.
Vegetarian
cooking -- Lithuania.
Cooking (Natural foods)
ISBN:
9780805243277 (hc.)
0805243275 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xxxvii, 234 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in
Vilna
in Yiddish as Vegetarish-Dietisher Kokhbukh by G. Kleckina in 1938"--Title page verso.
Translated from Yiddish.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (page xxxvii) and index.
Contents:
Salads -- Soups -- Cutlets -- Stewed dishes -- Miscellaneous dishes -- Blintzes stuffed crepes) -- Omelets -- Porridges -- Frittatas -- Kugels with cholents -- Puddings -- Latkes -- Passover foods -- Substantial puddings -- Sauces and creams -- Stuffed foods -- Baked goods -- Jams and preserves -- Turnovers -- Compotes and desserts -- Glazes and garnishes for cakes -- Coffee, buttermilk, and yogurt -- Marinated foods -- Ices -- Wine, mead, and liqueur -- Vitamin drinks and juices.
Summary:
"A mouthwatering
vegetarian
cookbook
originally published in Yiddish in pre-World War II
Vilna
and miraculously
rediscovered
more than half a century later. In 1938, Fania Lewando, the proprietor of a popular
vegetarian
restaurant in
Vilna
, Lithuania, published a Yiddish
vegetarian
cookbook
unlike any that had come before. Its 400
recipes
ranged from traditional Jewish dishes (kugel, blintzes, fruit compote, borscht) to
vegetarian
versions of Jewish holiday staples (cholent, kishke, schnitzel) to appetizers, soups, main courses, and desserts that introduced vegetables and fruits that had not traditionally been part of the repertoire of the Jewish homemaker (Chickpea Cutlets, Jerusalem Artichoke Soup; Leek Frittata; Apple Charlotte with Whole Wheat Breadcrumbs). Also included were impassioned essays by Lewando and by a physician about the benefits of vegetarianism. Accompanying the
recipes
were lush full-color drawings of vegetables and fruit that had originally appeared on bilingual (Yiddish and English) seed packets. Lewando'
s
cookbook
was sold throughout Europe. Fleeing the Nazi invasion of
Vilna
in the fall of 1941, she and her husband were captured by Soviet soldiers and died sometime thereafter. It was assumed that all but a few family-owned and archival copies of her
cookbook
vanished along with most of European Jewry. But in 1995 a couple attending an antiquarian book fair in England came upon a copy of Lewando'
s
cookbook
. Recognizing its historical value, they purchased it and donated it to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. Enchanted by the book'
s
contents and by its backstory, YIVO commissioned a translation of the book to make Lewando'
s
charming, delicious, and practical
recipes
available to an audience beyond the wildest dreams of the visionary woman who created them."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Cookbooks.
Other authors:
Jochnowitz, Eve.
Holds:
2
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Status
J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
641.5636 L669v
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