Portico
Book description
A leading authority on Jewish food, Leah Koenig celebrates la cucina Ebraica Romana within the pages of her new cookbook. Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome's Jewish Kitchen features over 100 deeply flavourful recipes and beautiful photographs of Rome's Jewish community, the oldest in Europe. The city's Jewish residents have…
Why read it?
1 author picked Portico as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is an exquisitely beautiful book, both visually and textually. It combines one of the author’s passions, food and cooking, with her other Jewish culture and traditions.
The rich cultural history of the community of Roman Jews, dating back more than two millennia, is a story of cycles of ghettoized tribulation and resilience that Koenig tells with depth and compassion through her own personal experience of discovery. Along the way, the continuously evolving community developed a hybrid cuisine unique in the world.
Koenig’s reputation as a food authority is already impressive and is still growing. The photography in Portico is…
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