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The Bialy Eaters The Story Of A Bread And A Lost World

(Hardcover Book )

by:
Sheraton, Mimi

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Product Details:

Hardcover Book :

160 Pages

Publisher:

Broadway Books

Pub. Date:

Sep 01, 2000

Our Part #:

00494

ISBN-10:

0767905024

ISBN-13:

9780767905022

Description:

A passion for bialys, those chewy, crusty rolls with the toasted onion center, drew Mimi Sheraton to the Polish town of Bialystok to explore the history of this Jewish staple. Carefully wrapping, drying and packing a dozen American bialys to ward off translation problems, she set off from New York in search of the people who invented this marvelous bread. Instead, she found a place of utter desolation, where turn-of-the-century massacres, followed by the Holocaust, had reduced the number of Jewish residents there from fifty thousand to five.

Sheraton became a woman with a mission, traveling to Israel, Paris, Austin, Phoenix, Buenos Aires, and New York's Lower East Side to rescue the stories of the scattered Bialystokers. In a bittersweet mix of humor and pathos, she tells of their once-vibrant culture and its cuisine, reviving the exiled memories of those who escaped to the corners of the earth with only their recollections and one very important recipe, to cherish.

Like Proust's madeleine, this book transports the readers to a list world through its bakers' most beloved, and humble, offering. A meaningful gift for any Jewish holiday, this tribute to the human spirit will also have as broad appeal as the bialy itself, delighting everyone who celebrates the astonishing endurance of the simplest traditions. Not a cookbook.

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