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| A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews by David Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson |
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| Rather than a translation of a surviving medieval book of receipts, this cookbook springs from research the authors were doing in documents of the Spanish Inquisition. A suspected secret Jew was not simply burned out of hand - testimony from neighbors, servants and acquaintances was taken to determine guilt or innocence. One of the most closely questioned areas concerned food habits - a person who cooked their vegetables in olive oil rather than bacon grease, like a normal Christian, could be suspected of secretly harboring Jewish beliefs. |
| The authors have
combined the things they learned from these documents with general research
in Mediterranean cooking during this period and have come up with
recipes. With each recipe, they tell the story of the person
accused of making the dish. While the recipes can not be
documented in the usual sense, they seem appropriate to the period and
one learns a good deal about the eating habits and lives of the people
involved.
$29.95 (hardback) |
