A Drizzle of Honey

[psocoptera]

A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews, David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson. This was one of the references Gail Carson Levine used in writing A Ceiling Made of Eggshells, which they turned out to have at my local library, so, hey. I haven't cooked anything from it yet, but enough of the recipes sounded interesting that I bought the ebook. There's also a lot of fascinating context for the recipes about the lives of conversos and crypto-Jews, although please note that a lot of these stories end with "and then the Inquisition burned him at the stake". I personally found it moving that we have these details about their lives and can try to imagine or recreate the food they ate. (And to think in general about life under a hostile and oppressive regime, hm.) I'll note for eggplant partiers that there are a lot of eggplant recipes in this, although I don't intend to cook any of them myself since I continue to not actually like eggplant.

Comments

[ruthling]

that sounds great!

[isis]

That sounds really interesting. If this is the sort of thing you like - details of their lives, what they ate, "and then the Inquisition burned him at the stake" - let me offer a recommendation for In Memory's Kitchen, a book of recipes which was compiled by my great-grandmother from her own remembrances and the memories of the other Jewish women toiling together in the Terezin concentration camp.

[psocoptera]

Oh, wow. Even if I never read that, I like so much that it exists, I'm so glad that that history is recorded somewhere. Thanks for the rec.