Lilian Cornfeld. What and How to Cook in Wartime.

AUCTION 51 |
Thursday, June 23rd,
2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II
Lot 150
(COOK-BOOK)
Lilian Cornfeld. What and How to Cook in Wartime.
Tel Aviv: 1943
Est: $300 - $400
PRICE REALIZED $400
The first cook-book published in Palestine in the English language.
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, the absence of professional class within the food-industry and most fundamentally, simplicity as a practical necessity - and ideological principle.