Description: Winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Food Writing & Cookbooks.
Review Quotes: "Throughout his book Koerner will demonstrate that in the case of Hungarian Jews, as probably in that of other Jewish groups, cultural identities and processes are actually more strongly, vividly and immediately felt in a family's kitchen than in its Synagogue. András Koener's Jewish Cuisine in Hungary is richly illustrated with many photos and other reproductions of material-culture artifacts and symbols that together turn this book into a lively tour-guide of sorts to the culinary ethos of predominantly nineteenth-century Hungarian and Central-European secularizing/ed Jews."--Hungarian Cultural Studies
"Read-ers look-ing for a typ-i-cal cook-book may be alarmed when they dig into this gor-geous vol-ume. While the sub-ti-tle adver-tis-es eighty-three authen-tic recipes, nei-ther many of the ingre-di-ents (goose, carp, giblets, boiled beef) nor the tech-niques (stuff-ing goose necks, mak-ing pud-ding from smoked beef) seem par-tic-u-lar-ly acces-si-ble. Yet this book is quite irresistible. Beyond the hon-esty and charm, it's Koerner's com-mit-ment to defy-ing Nazi destruc-tion, to sav-ing Hun-gar-i-an Jew-ish cul-ture, that makes this book so com-pelling. Jew-ish Cui-sine in Hun-gary is right-eous scholarship."
--Jewish Book Council"This is a rigorously researched, engagingly written recreation of daily life filled with rarely seen photographs and pen and ink illustrations by Koerner himself. I adored this book.... Koerner focuses on the objects, food, and people that were an integral part of his great-grandmother's everyday existence. These alluring pages rescue a way of life from oblivion via an indelible portrait of an observant Jewish woman who serves as a representative of her entire community. Much is illuminated through her recipes and her great-grandson's loving illustrations."--The Arts Fuse
"Andras Koerner, author of Jewish Book Award-winning Jewish Cuisine in Hungary, uses untouched culinary traditions to explore centuries of cultural history before the Holocaust. The 2019 Jewish Book Award in the inaugural category of food writing and cookbooks has been given to 'Jewish Cuisine in Hungary' by Andras Koerner. As Koerner told The Times of Israel in a phone conversation, the book 'offers a cultural history of the diversity of Hungarian Jewish cuisine before 1945.'" https: //www.timesofisrael.com/flavor-of-prewar-hungarian-jewish-life-captured-in...
--Rich Tenorio, The Times of Israel