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Front matter
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
PREFACE by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: COOKBOOKS AND A RECIPE COLLECTION
1. THE WORLD’S FIRST COOKBOOK PRINTED IN HEBREW LETTERS
Recipes from the first cookbook in Hebrew letters
2. THE FIRST JEWISH COOKBOOK IN HUNGARY
Recipes from the first Jewish cookbook in Hungary
3. THE EARLIEST HUNGARIAN JEWISH RECIPE COLLECTION
Recipes from the earliest Jewish recipe collection in Hungary
4. A WORLD-FAMOUS NINETEENTH-CENTURY HUNGARIAN JEWISH COOKBOOK
Recipes from Therese Lederer’s 1876 cookbook
5. THE LAST WIZO COOKBOOK BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST
Recipes from the 1938 Transylvanian WIZO cookbook
PART TWO: CULINARY CULTURE
6. BÓLESZ, A FORGOTTEN JEWISH PASTRY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY PEST
The recipe of bólesz
7. THE INFLUENCE OF HUNGARIAN JEWISH CUISINE ON THE NON-JEWISH
Jewish recipes from nineteenth-century Hungarian cookbooks
EPILOGUE: HUNGARY’S PIONEERING ROLE IN EARLY JEWISH COOKBOOKS
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index of Recipes
Index of Personal Names
Illustration Credits
Acknowledgments
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