Consulting Jewish Cookbooks for Thanksgiving
Compiled by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History

Jewish cookery book, on principles of economy: adapted for Jewish housekeepers, with the addition of many useful medicinal recipes, and other valuable information, relative to housekeeping and domestic management was the first Jewish cookbook published in America. It has instructions on how to boil and roast a turkey. American Jewish Historical Society here at the Center holds the original.

You may find more inspiration for your holiday cooking in:

• The New York Times Jewish cookbook : more than 750 traditional and contemporary recipes for every occasion
• The Molly Goldberg Jewish cookbook
• The complete American-Jewish cookbook: in accordance with the Jewish dietary laws
• or in one of the dozens of cookbooks in the AJHS Regional Cookbook Collection.

If you don’t do the cooking, or your menu is all set, you may find context in The kosher gourmet in the nineteenth-century kitchen : three Jewish cookbooks in historical perspective.

Images above: c/o the American Jewish Historical Society Collections.