A Drizzle of Honey

The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews

David M. Gitlitz, Linda Kay Davidson

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Year: 2000
• ISBN:
  9781466824775
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia europea

When Iberian Jews were converted to Catholicism under duress during the Inquisition, many struggled to retain their Jewish identity in private while projecting Christian conformity in the public sphere. To root out these heretics, the courts of the Inquisition published checklists of koshering practices and "grilled" the servants, neighbors, and even the children of those suspected of practicing their religion at home. From these testimonies and other primary sources, Gitlitz & Davidson have drawn a fascinating, award-winning picture of this precarious sense of Jewish identity and have re-created these recipes, which combine Christian & Islamic traditions in cooking lamb, beef, fish, eggplant, chickpeas, and greens and use seasonings such as saffron, mace, ginger, and cinnamon. The recipes, and the accompanying stories of the people who created them, promise to delight the adventurous palate and give insights into the foundations of modern Sephardic cuisine.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• COOKING MEDIEVAL IN A MODERN KITCHEN
• Recipes, Stories & Commentary
• Fish
• Fowl
• Beef
• Lamb and Goat
• Sausages
• Meat and Fish Pies
• Breads
• Desserts and Snacks
• Holiday Foods
• Vegetable Broth
• Salsa Fina
• Cilantro Juice
• Nigella Almorí
• Simple Almorí,
• Pennyroyal Almorí
• Almorí
• Almond Milk
• Also by
• ENDNOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX
• Notes
• Copyright Page