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09/08/2025

Thank you, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, for highlighting FLAVORS OF AL-ANDALUS by Janet Mendel in this interesting piece on & !

"Food writers and food historians like to speculate on what Mediterranean cuisine must have been like before the introduction of tomatoes. For a good look at what was going on in pre-Columbian southern Spain, a new book by Janet Mendel, FLAVORS OF AL-ANDALUS, dives into the subject. “How,” she asks, “did the Andalusíes make gazpacho?” And she goes back to the progenitor of the iconic cold soup, back even to the Roman legions in the heat of an Andalusian summer, mixing together a staple sustenance of bread-garlic-oil, thinning it with spring water and adding whatever fresh ingredients were available—chopped cucumbers, lettuce, figs, and eventually, centuries later, tomatoes and peppers."

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08/25/2025

Read about this Polish food tradition--Chicken soup on Sundays--from Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, author

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​ It’s noon on Sunday on a hot summer day in the 1960’s. The sun is pouring into the kitchen. There are pots boiling on top of every burner of the stove. We are still in our church-going...

08/20/2025

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08/12/2025

New release!
FLAVORS OF AL-ANDALUS
The Culinary Legacy of Spain
by Janet Mendel

Author and Spanish cooking expert Janet Mendel tells the story of the Moorish influence on Spanish cooking through 120 recipes for modern-day dishes, from salads and vegetables to fish, poultry and meat to sweets and pastries, that trace their heritage to foods served in medieval times. During periods of convivencia, the different communities—Muslim, Sephardic-Jewish, and Mozárabe Christian—lived together in friendly cooperation, shopping at the same markets, trading commodities, and sharing each other’s holidays and festive foods. The interweaving of cultures embedded the foodways of al-Andalus deeply in Spanish life.

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08/10/2025

Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, author writes about the Warsaw Uprising and the shrines and memorials across Poland that commemorate it.

You can also learn more in her book SPIRIT OF PLACE: The Roadside Shrines of Poland: https://www.hippocrenebooks.com/store/p491/SpiritofPlace.html

​The purpose of many of the religious shrines visible throughout the cities and countryside of Poland is often to give thanks for a prayer that has been answered or perhaps in the hopes that it...

08/05/2025

One week until publication of FLAVORS OF AL-ANDALUS by Janet Mendel This tapas party video showcases some favorites (like this gorgeous salad with oranges and cod) from her new cookbook!

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https://youtu.be/BcPIcamGIv0

Celebrated cookbook author and expert on Spanish cooking, Janet Mendel, invites you to a tapas party based on recipes from her new cookbook, FLAVORS OF AL-AN...

08/05/2025

Congratulations Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, author!

04/25/2025

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04/17/2025

Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, author contributed to this fascinating piece about the butter lamb tradition that Polish Catholics enjoy at Easter!

https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/easter-butter-lamb-buffalo

A butter lamb has taken center stage on my family’s Easter table for as long as I can remember.