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This is a book of enormous importance both as social history and for its traditional recipes. Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg have managed to artfully entwine bread and Jewish cultural identity like the very challah that has become its popular symbol. I learned many things I hadn't previously known and wanted to capture in my own loaves the tears I felt welling in my eyes as I was reminded, through their words, that bread is always more than just bread.--Peter Reinhart author of The Bread Baker's ApprenticeNot just a cookbook, Inside the Jewish Bakery will take readers on an intellectually satisfying and sensually gratifying journey, not only "inside the Jewish bakery," but to the heart and soul of Ashkenazi Jewish life. Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg, in this beautifully written, genre-defying work, offer a fine summary of the scholarly literature as a way to provide a context for this foray into an intimate part of Jewish life in Europe and America—the bakery.--Hasia R. Diner, New York… Read More
