Lilian Cornfeld. What and How to Cook in Wartime.

(COOK-BOOK)

Tel Aviv

1943

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.