Inside the Jewish Bakery: Recipes and Memories from the Golden Age of Jewish Baking

More than a collection of recipes, Inside the Jewish Bakery chronicles the history and traditions��s well as the distinctive baked goods��f Ashkenazic Jewry in Eastern Europe and America. Drawing on sources as diverse as the Talmud, Sholom Aleichem and the yizkor books that memorialize communities destroyed in the Holocaust, the authors have crafted an engaging ��dible history��that endows their recipes with a powerful sense of time and place.