{"id":11230,"date":"2021-07-06T00:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T00:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=11230"},"modified":"2021-07-06T00:52:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T00:52:52","slug":"esther-david-collaborates-with-indian-jewish-communities-to-record-recipes-for-bene-appetit-the-cuisine-of-the-indian-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=11230","title":{"rendered":"**  Esther David collaborates with Indian Jewish communities to record recipes for \u2018Bene App\u00e9tit: The Cuisine of the Indian Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author Esther David travels across India, collaborating with Jewish communities to learn how to cook traditional, closely guarded recipes for her new book, \u2018Bene App\u00e9tit: The Cuisine of the Indian Jews\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cZoo life was very cosmopolitan. I grew up with Gujarati friends. And the realisation of being Jewish. So I was really inhabiting three worlds,\u201d says author Esther David, over a call from Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her latest book,&nbsp;<em>Bene App\u00e9tit: The Cuisine of the Indian Jews<\/em>, published by HarperCollins, opens with the lines \u201cFood is memory. Food is culture. Food bonds families and communities.\u201d Hence, in the face of a rapidly fading collective memory of the Indian Jewish experience, Esther decided it was time to travel across the country to record their traditions. In the process, she uncovered closely guarded recipes for dishes such as chik-cha-halva, jumping potatoes, agar agar jelly and even a Jewish biryani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Esther David travels across India, collaborating with Jewish communities to learn how to cook traditional, closely guarded recipes for her new book, \u2018Bene App\u00e9tit: The Cuisine of the Indian Jews\u2019 \u201cZoo life was very cosmopolitan. I grew up with Gujarati friends. And the realisation of being Jewish. So I was really inhabiting three worlds,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=11230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  Esther David collaborates with Indian Jewish communities to record recipes for \u2018Bene App\u00e9tit: The Cuisine of the Indian Jews<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-records-india-national","category-women-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11231,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions\/11231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}