{"product_id":"cholent-the-most-jewish-food-on-earth-9781805002413","title":"Cholent: The Most Jewish Food on Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eShabbat stew travels the globe, revealing how Jewish cuisine shaped diaspora culture and identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt sounds insane. Why would anyone deliberately leave a pot cooking for fifteen hours straight? But that's what Jewish people worldwide have done for more than 1,700 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this richly-researched book, Jewish food scholar Joel Haber explains the reasons for this practice, digging into how one special food--\"the Shabbat stew\"-- has changed as Jews have migrated. Despite unique ingredients and names (cholent, hamin, skhena, khalebibi, and more), these many stews prove to be versions of the same dish, rather than different ones. A popular one-pot meal traveled with Jews wherever they moved, morphing with what ingredients were available and popular. The book uses this singular \"stew with a thousand flavors\" to trace the routes of Jewish migrations throughout the Diaspora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the changes to the dish, and to Jewish life in each place, Joel highlights how this dish embodies the Jewish story. The Jewish nation is the most globalized on earth, one people with numerous visible communal variations. This book celebrates Jewish uniqueness, as seen through the nearly 30 tried and tested recipes the book includes. Reflecting that unity-within-diversity, the kaleidoscopic Shabbat stew is truly the most Jewish food on earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Green Bean Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781805002413","brand":"Joel Haber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774292062389,"sku":"9781805002413","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cholent-the-most-jewish-food-on-earth-9781805002413","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}