Seeking Jewish Community Cookbooks

Hello to all, and forgive this round robin way of reaching people!

Jan Longone is doing an exhibition on Jewish Contributions to American cooking at the Hatcher Library at University of Michigan, from Aug 31 to about Dec 8 or so, 2013., and need the following states

Among the highlights of the Exhibition will be a Jewish Community Cookbook from each of the fifty States plus D.C. We have a good number already, but we need help for accumulating the others.

The older the cookbook, the better. We will show many early 20th Century items, but also more modern ones.

We are looking for the following States: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas. Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota,Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, Wyoming.

Also, we are very eager to obtain a copy of the 1903 Detroit THE TEMPLE COOK BOOK from Detroit, MI

Can you please send me a brief list, if so? I thank you all in advance.

Jan L

(Send Cathy2 a PM, if you have something)

Cathy2,
I have from my mother "A Hearty HARC Appetite" by the members of HARC, "Help a Retarded Child", cookbook chairman Mrs Edwin J. Shinitzky.

It looks like it's from 1965. I could loan it, but would want it back. Recipes from my mother, aunt, uncle and a couple cousins are included. (including egg rolls with peanut butter, crab "fondue", blintzes, jello fruit molds, noodle kugel, etc.:

Hi,

This article offers information on where these Jewish community cookbooks will be exhibited: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-an ... 1WPGFKb.01

There will be an opening lecture on September 24th in Ann Arbor, MI.

Regards,

Too bad I missed this. Looking @ my mother's Hadassa cookbook from 76. Still use the spinach dip recipe.

Jazzfood wrote:Too bad I missed this. Looking @ my mother's Hadassa cookbook from 76. Still use the spinach dip recipe.

Hi,

May not, because they were seeking donations rather than loans for this exhibit. Taking the family cookbook was not desired.

This proved a problem in South Dakota where there are three synagogues. There is one known community cookbook, which nobody wanted to part. Completely understandable reaction, so they took a facsimile.

I did learn about this story published in South Dakota Magazine from 1990:

Way back in Nov/Dec 1990, the magazine wrote about Hack Rosenthal.

"In the 1920s, there was a small Jewish colony of ranchers in northwestern Harding County. From that community came a rough-and-tumble, 6'3" cowboy named Hack Rosenthal.

Stories of his run-ins with broncs, cows and men are still legendary. In the book "Tipperary," author Paul Hennessey quoted a neighbor as saying that Hack never drank whiskey and in spite of wild rumors, he never stole a horse in his life.

He liked South Dakota meat, but he adhered to his Jewish tradition of abstaining from pork. He was known to eat two large T-bones at a sitting.

However, Hennessey wrote that Hack once attended a gathering where food was plentiful and the cook forgot Hack was Jewish. She served him a big pork roast and much gravy and mashed potatoes. He ate most of the potatoes and pork gravy before he eyed the slabs of roast and realized what he'd done. At that point, he said, "I might as well eat the Devil as drink his broth." And he helped himself to some pork."