Lilian Cornfeld. What and How to Cook in Wartime - Kochen Kriegszeiten

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 119
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Lilian Cornfeld. What and How to Cook in Wartime - Kochen Kriegszeiten

English and German editions bound together pp. 68 + 68. Later boards with original color pictorial front wrapper bound in. 8vo

Tel Aviv: 1943

Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $300
An immigrant in the 1920's from Canada to Mandate Palestine, the nutritionist Lilian Cornfeld noted many challenges to the emergence of a national cuisine in the newly materializing modern society of Eretz Israel. Such challenges included a diverse population, simplicity as a practical necessity (and ideological principle) and the absence of professional class within the food-industry