Erin Biba: I'm trying to learn more Sephardic dishes and Jewish foods from outside of Eastern Europe. If you've got non-Ashkenazi or dishes from outside the region you love please share them! I wanna broaden my experience of Jewish culture since we're from literally everywhere!

I'm trying to learn more Sephardic dishes and Jewish foods from outside of Eastern Europe. If you've got non-Ashkenazi or dishes from outside the region you love please share them! I wanna broaden my experience of Jewish culture since we're from literally everywhere!

Tonight I'm making the Iraqi Jewish dish Tbeet, which I've never had before. But I just watched like 5 videos and each one was a *completely different* recipe so I figure I'll never actually eat Tbeet so much as I'll just taste its vibes.

If you don't know Claudia Roden's The Book of Jewish Food she is the GOAT of the Jewish food diaspora. It took her ten years and she wrote three other books just to fund it. A stupendous and tremendously enjoyable feat of heart and scholarship.

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Thank you will look her up!

If you want to go from there and dive more deeply in to some more specific diaspora cuisines two of my favourites are Matzoh Ball Gumbo, which explores the history of Jewish food in the American South, and Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome's Jewish Kitchens

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I love malawach so much. Jachnun is also boss.

Malawach - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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In addition to all the other recommendations, look at The New Mediterranean Jewish Table by Joyce Goldstein and Aromas of Aleppo by Poopa Dweck. Also there’s a group on FB called Sephardic Recipe Swap that you might like.

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Thank you!

I haven't made anything from here yet, but loved Esther David's Bene Israel cookbook. It also goes into detail about the history and culture of different Jewish communities in India. thelocavore.in/2022/11/25/a...

An Excerpt from Bene Appetit: The Cuisine of Indian Jews - The Locavorethelocavore.in In Bene Appetit, Esther David, a Bene Israel Jew herself, records traditions and closely guarded recipes from Jewish communities from across India. In this excerpt, she travels to Andhra Pradesh to le...

Thank you!!

I haven't made too many of these yet but I was so excited to find this

If you haven't run across the Flavors of Diaspora blog yet, it's extremely worth diving into!

Aboutflavorsofdiaspora.com This blog was born out of two desires. Firstly, I wanted to cook – well, I always want to cook. Specifically, I wanted to make recipes handed down not through cookbooks or media, but rather from fr…

Oh cool thank you!

do you have a copy of 52 shabbats yet?

I don't! I will get it!

especially in NYC, or in Israel, I would highly recommend going to Sefardi/Mizrachi restaurants and grocery stores/appetizers to taste dishes, find the foods you like.

This is going to be a fun game of thinking back through many potlucks and trying to remember where came from what and whom.

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