The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook garden-fresh recipes rediscovered and adapted for today's kitchen
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 to vegetarian versions of Jewish holiday staples to appetizers, soups, main co...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Yiddish |
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New York :
Schocken Books,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 to vegetarian versions of Jewish holiday staples 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Vilna in Yiddish as Vegetarish-Dietisher Kokhbukh by G. Kleckina in 1938"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xxxvii, 234 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page xxxvii) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780805243277 (hard cover : alk. paper) 0805243275 (hard cover : alk. paper) |
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