The Sephardic Kitchen: The Healthy Food and Rich Culture of the Mediterranean Jews

by Robert Sternberg

Book Overview

Light, healthy and robust -- these are the outstanding qualities of the summery, sun-splashed cooking of the Sephardic Jews, which Rabbi Robert Sternberg offers in this enlightening book about an under-explored aspect of the increasingly popular Mediterranean cooking.

Expelled from Spain during the Inquisition, the Sephardic Jews scattered to all corners of the Mediterranean. Their strong traditions and varied cultural experience combined with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060176911
• ISBN13: 9780060176914
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

New recipes!

Great Cookbook, with lots of extras!

"Oh My God -it's my Grandma's Food!!!"

"I was so delighted to actually see my grandmothers favorite recipes in this book -in her very own dialect!! There were 'Yaprakas', and 'Biscochos' - as she called them. And the authors descriptive narrations of the history of the food -was as if I could see my family from places long ago. When he said you never walked in a sephardic's house without being offered a buffet of food any present day caterer would envy, I had to laugh out loud! That was my family!