In her new cookbook, Leah Koenig shares recipes for classic Roman-Jewish dishes, including fried artichokes, a spinach (and raisin!) frittata, and sweet almond cookies.
Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome’s Jewish Kitchenis the kind of cookbook you can page through like a novel, reading for culinary wisdom, but also for deeply heartening stories and maybe a little life advice.
“For 315 years, Rome's Jews were forced to live inside a walled slum,” Koenig writes. The book’s artful photography plants the book firmly in Rome’s Jewish Ghetto, and over the course of the narration, you’ll meet a full cast of characters: Father-and-son restaurateurs who devise a kosher version of Italy’s signature pasta carbonara; a Libyan Jewish home cook masterfully multitasking as she prepares Shabbat dinner; and a matriarch preserving family recipes in a hand-written cookbook.
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