Topic: Cookbooks
Jewish cookbooks, which date from at least the 18th century, are the focus of this topic. We are inspired by Jeremy Stolow's pioneering work on ArtScroll and specifically on the cookbook as one of several kinds of self-help books published by this press.
How does Kosher by Design relate to other kosher cookbooks? For example, Spice and Spirit: The Complete Kosher Jewish Cookbook (2 editions, each quite different in style, Lubavitch, geared to new adherents); The Balebusta's Cookbook (Pupa Hasidim, European elegance, Hungarian style, kosher competence assumed); and The Jewish Home Beautiful (a product of the 1930s and 1940s), which is assertively "beautiful," while unassertively kosher.
Readings
Joselit, Jenna Weissman. The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. "Kitchen Judaism." In Getting Comfortable in New York: The American Jewish Home, 1880-1950. Edited by Susan Braunstein and Jenna Weissman Joselit. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. "The Moral Sublime: The Temple Emanuel Fair and Its Cookbook, Denver 1888." Recipes for Reading: The Community Cookbook and Its Stories. Ed. Anne L. Bower. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.