András Koerner’s Jew­ish Cui­sine in Hun­gary paints a vivid por­trait of pre­war Jew­ish Hun­gary through its food, its bak­ers, its home­mak­ers, and more. The focus on Jew­ish house­holds and local busi­ness­es shifts the schol­ar­ly gaze from typ­i­cal his­tor­i­cal sub­jects to the realm of work­ing peo­ple and women — fer­tile ground for mean­ing­ful inquiry. The book quotes exten­sive­ly from mem­oirs, cook­books, and peri­od­i­cals of the time with each rich pas­sage rev­el­ing in the minu­ti­ae of dai­ly life. https://bit.ly/2Rw8CQx//