Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

2024

DOI

10.1086/731009

Publication Title

Speculum

Volume

99

Issue

3

Pages

937-939

Abstract

[Introduction] Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. This should be the motto of any book that examines the medieval food culture of Iberia. In her new book entitled Jews, Food, and Spain, Hélène Jawhara Piñer seeks to demonstrate both the process through which the Jewish cuisine of the Iberian Middle Ages acted as a cultural identifier, and how this culinary culture has been maintained in the modern Sephardic communities. Piñer's book aims to fill the gap in Spanish culinary history by "reintegrating Jewish cuisine into the historically transmitted food heritage of Spain (28)."

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Original Publication Citation

Daas, M. (2024). [Review of the book Jews, food, and Spain: The oldest medieval Spanish cookbook and the Sephardic culinary heritage, by H. J. Piner.] Speculum, 99(3), 937-939. https://doi.org/10.1086/731009

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