Daily News | Chef Alon Shaya re-creates a family’s recipes rescued during the Holocaust
Chef Alon Shaya, who grew up on the Main Line, says “a light bulb went off" when he realized that Steven Fenves, son of a family uprooted during World War II, was alive."Rescued Recipes" was born.
The Shayas also saw a cookbook written in Hungarian that had been recovered from the home of the Fenyves family in Subotica, Yugoslavia, after the authorities had rounded them up in May 1944 and sent them to a Jewish ghetto.at the time. Steven, who survived the death camps and moved to the United States, later found the family’s cook, who had swiped the cookbook to save it from looters. Steven Fenves Shaya said that when he learned that Fenves was alive, “a light bulb went off.
The interaction had reignited Fenves’ passion, Fenves said. “I resumed my talks as a committed spokesman for the six million victims, recalling and retelling the emotions engendered not just by the taste of foods, but also by the joys of the intense family and social life that was taken from us,” he said.
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