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

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Lot 150
(COOK-BOOK)

Lilian Cornfeld. What and How to Cook in Wartime.

pp. 68. Browned. Original color pictorial wrappers. 8vo

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.