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The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York
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Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people’s minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and…

Contributor:

Claudia Roden

Places:

Hampstead, United Kingdom

Date:

1996

Subjects:

Mizrahi, Food and drink, Jewish identity, Diaspora

Categories:

Food & drink, Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
Photograph in two parts: on the left, two women in head coverings are preparing food at a stove; on the right, two people are around a table while a woman brushes a young girl's hair.
Instructions Regarding Children and Inquiry about Passover
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To Hoshaiah. Your welfare (may DN seek after at all times). Now, look after the children by yourself until Ahutab comes. Do not entrust them to others. If their bread is ground, knead for them 1 qab,…

Places:

Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

ca. 475 BCE

Subjects:

Diaspora, Family, Food and drink, Children, Passover

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters