Ebook: Tastes of Faith: Jewish Eating in the United States

"Foodways--the cultural, religious, social, economic, and political practices related to food consumption and production--unpack and reveal the meaning of what we eat as well as our tastes. They explain not just our flavor profiles, but our senses of refinement and judgment. They also reveal quite a bit about the history and culture of how food operates and performs in society. Jewish food practices and products expose and explain how different groups within American society think about what it means to be Jewish and the values (as well as the prejudices) people have about what "Jewish" means. For Jews, food is at once a source of great nostalgia and pride and the central means by which acculturation and adaptation takes place."--Back cover.