Food in the Islamic Middle East: A Case Study of the Sephardic Heritage CookbookMain MenuAbout this Publication : the "Sephardic Heritage Cookbook" as a Case StudyThe History of Ingredients: Understanding Tradition and Change in Culinary CulturesProject: Cooking From Our CookbookFood in the Islamic Middle East Course54534cac3facfcad2635d1267782448c7b710002University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Sephardic American Culinary Cultures
1media/20230512_125913.jpgmedia/2017-03-06 07.18.07.jpg2023-01-20T14:39:04+00:00Food in the Islamic Middle East Course54534cac3facfcad2635d1267782448c7b710002142image_header2023-05-13T21:20:01+00:00Heather Sharkeyf20cf88af2b99290b913dbf4541d6e4f00da3505This site, again, is the product of a collective effort, and arose from a seminar offered at the University of Pennsylvania in Spring 2023. While a few students in the seminar identified as Jewish, the majority did not. And so, for many students, learning about Sephardic cuisine through the Sephardic Heritage Cookbook meant learning about basic aspects of Jewish culinary culture: for example, about what makes food kosher, why Jews eat unleavened bread (matzoh) for Passover, or even what it means to observe the Sabbath or holidays like Purim and Rosh Hashanah. Some students expressed an interest in knowing more about the congregation, Temple Tifereth Israel, whose women’s society produced the cookbook; others were curious about how this congregation fit within the larger tapestry of Los Angeles-area Jewish communities. Instead of focusing on the United States, still others welcomed the opportunity to understand the cookbook and its community relative to the lands from which its congregants’ families had migrated – in the process, understanding how Jewish peoples shared a culture, through food, with their Muslim and other neighbors. More broadly, recalling the importance of African American community cookbooks in her own grandmother’s kitchen, one student set out to understand how the Sephardic Heritage Cookbook exemplified the American community cookbook as a literary genre. From their research on a variety of topics, which they shared and discussed with each other, students emerged with a clearer sense of the cultural specificity and universality of Sephardic cuisine in its local and global contexts.
Contents of this path:
12023-02-27T19:26:26+00:00Madison McCullough158a5350ab4c68e1b2e82f4458c9bc528eda933bIntroducing the Community Cookbook10plain2023-05-13T02:21:34+00:00Heather Sharkeyf20cf88af2b99290b913dbf4541d6e4f00da3505
12023-03-20T18:01:30+00:00Jack Iuliano52ca1ff5556341d27ac420896cc141786346bb34The Origins of Sephardic Jews7plain2023-05-13T02:28:04+00:00Heather Sharkeyf20cf88af2b99290b913dbf4541d6e4f00da3505
12023-02-27T19:20:16+00:00Alesia Radzyminskie68bd3d7e91fbfa6c2149562a5b44e242b49c2e0Jewish Communities of Los Angeles2plain2023-02-27T19:21:37+00:00Alesia Radzyminskie68bd3d7e91fbfa6c2149562a5b44e242b49c2e0
12023-02-23T19:19:18+00:00Matthew Landell86e1630799eb680c7bff4f75fc76c41e0e0da014History of Or Chadash Sisterhood8The history of the synagogue that published the course cookbookplain2023-05-13T02:19:55+00:00Heather Sharkeyf20cf88af2b99290b913dbf4541d6e4f00da3505
1media/رنگینک_در_شهر_آبپخش.jpgmedia/رنگینک_در_شهر_آبپخش.jpg2023-02-19T22:13:20+00:00Lindsey Perlman8845e8d7e67a6f5f060937a9b7828261ff36e325Ranginak: A Persian Sweet Made from Dates9image_header2023-05-13T13:16:31+00:00Heather Sharkeyf20cf88af2b99290b913dbf4541d6e4f00da3505
1media/Matzot_René_Neymann_Wasselonne_avril_2014.jpgmedia/Matzot_René_Neymann_Wasselonne_avril_2014.jpg2023-02-06T18:59:10+00:00Jade Margolis78f2d018b80df8d77b6d934b02d66b0c5e5b8b2fMatzoh and Its Meaning14Assignment 1, Jade Margolisplain2023-05-13T13:25:06+00:00Heather Sharkeyf20cf88af2b99290b913dbf4541d6e4f00da3505
1media/nowruz photo.jpeg2023-03-13T23:58:21+00:00Edward Byers52a0b7039bfd11b23273f6681b3a6e120840810bNowruz: A Celebration for Everyone8image_header2023-03-22T17:08:39+00:00Edward Byers52a0b7039bfd11b23273f6681b3a6e120840810b
1media/Ruta_graveolens_Ruta_zwyczajna_2019-04-28_02.jpgmedia/Ruta_graveolens_Ruta_zwyczajna_2019-04-28_02.jpg2023-03-01T19:28:26+00:00Madison Sleutjes280c541d216cd2eb9588f78e9e2d2c4a914748f9Masapan, Ruda, and the Evil Eye7plain2023-05-13T13:39:00+00:00Heather Sharkeyf20cf88af2b99290b913dbf4541d6e4f00da3505
1media/Heather Challah 27 Feb 2023.jpg2023-02-22T21:51:43+00:00Jaydin Clark87ac760e1f5e1912dae22818ff1573596b72d067A Brief History of Challah12plain2023-05-13T21:23:41+00:00Heather Sharkeyf20cf88af2b99290b913dbf4541d6e4f00da3505
1media/Quinoa_Chenopodium_quinoa.jpg2023-03-20T18:04:19+00:00Joseph Andersona5f25d7d7604d7115d91093733a0260cb4fe05b0Unlikely Bedfellows: Quinoa and Sephardic Food3plain2023-05-13T21:28:52+00:00Heather Sharkeyf20cf88af2b99290b913dbf4541d6e4f00da3505