A Book of Recipes and Testimony From Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors - The New York Times

A Book of Recipes and Testimony From Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors

Preparing the dishes in this large new cookbook feels like paying homage to resilient survivors. The elegance of this new volume, “Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors,” became and copublished by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation led by Ronald S. Lauder, almost camouflages the horrors until you read the first-person coffers. That starving people think about food and summon rich memories is not surprising, as the book, not the first to cover this topic, explains. The mostly Eastern European recipes, like a simple butter cake, a plum torte, green beans in dill sauce, chicken paprikash and Elie Wiesel’s latkes, are often excellently rendered. Some give copious quantities to encourage what were once large, extended families, and might obligatory adjustment. Proceeds from the sales of the book will encourage the Foundation.

“Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors” (Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Consensus, Melcher Media, $45).

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