Welcome to Milk Street's monthly cookbook feature! This month, we’re cooking from Leah Koenig's “Portico,” a resplendent overview of the 2,000 year-old-culture and cuisine of Rome’s Jewish community. Koenig weaves recipes throughout rich histories of Roman Jewish cocina povera—“a cuisine unlike any found elsewhere on earth.” When we asked Koenig for a recipe that she felt captured the spirit of the book, she chose this dried fruit and nut bar, pizza ebraica: “crispy-edged, soft-centered, absolut

12K views · 611 reactions | Did you know that the first-ever Yiddish vegetarian cookbook was published in 1938? Lost for decades, the cookbook is being published again and in new languages, bringing back the cultural and culinary legacy of Jews in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. | World Jewish Congress | Facebook