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1. 1 2023-04-08T07:46:25-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 Unlimited money and access to crops are luxuries that this generation of Jewish-Americans knew, but not their ancestors. Malnutrition rather than hunger as the predominant food-related issue shows how much culturally and physiologically changed so quickly Ilana Weisman 4 plain 2023-04-08T07:47:05-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4
2. 1 2023-04-08T07:49:14-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 1250 calories is hardly enough to sustain even a small, sedentary woman trying to lose weight! This information is, frankly, dangerous to share; the cookbook is promoting an American diet culture that highlights thinness and obscures health. Ilana Weisman 1 plain 2023-04-08T07:49:15-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4
3. 1 2023-04-08T07:43:28-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 The importance of nutrition stressed here fits the caretaking role also occupied by the feminine home chef. Women are responsible for the growth and development of their children. Ilana Weisman 1 plain 2023-04-08T07:43:28-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4
4. 1 2023-04-08T07:51:03-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 Even the illustrations on the side panel are of vegetables native to the American continents, not to Europe or Ashkenazi cuisine. They reinforce the Americanization of taste for this community. Ilana Weisman 1 plain 2023-04-08T07:51:04-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4
5. 1 2023-04-08T07:44:26-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 Including this information in the temple cookbook suggests changing community expectations: women were no longer reproducing just Jewish values, but American ones of healthfulness and fitness. Ilana Weisman 1 plain 2023-04-08T07:44:27-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4
6. 1 2023-04-08T07:52:20-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 Responsibility for knowing the latest in nutrition is placed on women, even though they still faced de jure exclusion from higher education opportunities and de facto exclusion from leadership in health and medicine. Ilana Weisman 1 plain 2023-04-08T07:52:21-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4

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• 1 2022-03-28T07:37:50-07:00 The Fairmount Cookbook 18 gallery 2023-04-08T08:59:34-07:00 The Fairmount Cookbook is the spiritual successor to EATS, created and printed by the same sisterhood one generation and one temple rebranding later. This iteration of the cookbook is more formally bound and printed; it's available in digital format from a variety of sources, including the New York Public Library, and can even be ordered in print on Amazon. This cookbook hits close to home: we have a different, red spiral-bound Fairmount Cookbook at my parents' house. The recipe for "Chai Prize Winning Brownies" contained in that cookbook was the first one I ever memorized.