Leah Koenig's Roman-Jewish Kitchen

Today I’m chatting with Leah Koenig, the much-celebrated cookbook author of a whopping SEVEN cookbooks, including Modern Jewish Cooking and The Jewish Cookbook. It’s like how there’s THE Ohio State University. Leah wrote THE Jewish Cookbook. We talk a little bit about that and I mention how instrumental that book was in moving me along my own Jewish cooking journey.

But the focus of our chat is on her latest cookbook, Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome's Jewish Kitchen. It's a captivating cookbook, deep-diving into the two-thousand-plus-year-old world of Roman-Jewish cooking with more than 100 recipes. I also get her thoughts on the evolution of Jewish cooking, particularly her own.

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