John Barleycorn or Eat and Be Satisfied

John Barleycorn

Author: Jack London

It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of California.

Upton Sinclair

Assuredly one of the most useful, as well as one of the most entertaining books ever penned by a man.

Interesting textbook: Fundamentals of Organizational Behavior or Wage Labor and Guilds in Medieval Europe

Eat and Be Satisfied: A Social History of Jewish Food

Author: John Cooper

Eat and Be Satisfied is the first comprehensive and critical history of Jewish food from biblical times until the present. John Cooper explores the traditional foods-the everyday diets as well as the specialties for the Sabbath and festivals-of both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic cuisines. He discusses the often debated question of what makes certain foods Jewish and details the evolution of such traditional dishes as cholent and gefilte fish.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Biblical Food	1
2	The Dietary Laws	17
3	Everyday Food in the Talmudic Age	37
4	Sabbath and Festival Food in the Talmudic Age	53
5	Traditional Jewish Food in the Middle Ages	79
6	Sabbath and Festival Food in the Middle Age	97
7	The Food of the Sephardim	121
8	Everyday Food of Central and Eastern European Jews	145
9	Sabbath and Festival Food of Central and Eastern European Jews	171
	Conclusion	197
	Appendix	203
	Notes	207
	For Further Reading	245
	Index	251