Leah Koenig's Roman-Jewish Kitchen

Today I’m chatting with Leah Koenig, the much-celebrated cookbook
author of a whopping SEVEN cookbooks, including Modern Jewish
Cooking and The Jewish Cookbook. It’s like how there’s THE Ohio
State University. Leah wrote THE Jewish Cookbook. We talk a
little bit about that and I mention how instrumental that book
was in moving me along my own Jewish cooking journey.


But the focus of our chat is on her latest cookbook, Portico:
Cooking and Feasting in Rome's Jewish Kitchen. It's a captivating
cookbook, deep-diving into the two-thousand-plus-year-old world
of Roman-Jewish cooking with more than 100 recipes. I also get
her thoughts on the evolution of Jewish cooking, particularly her
own.


Show Notes


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