My Grandmother's Cookbook: A Personal History of migration

Journal article

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In Journal Issue

Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 24, 3 (2019)

Author(s) Ruth Balint AbstractI inherited my grandmother's cookbook after she died, and it gave me a new way to learn about her life in Australia. It was more than a collection of recipes. It was her working manual, her creative manual, her intellectual manual, her scrapbook for both the intimate and the everyday, a record of her dreams, her struggles and her achievements. It also revealed a wider history of a migrant woman, a refugee, in a country hostile to and fearful of foreigners, and the everyday ways she negotiated these encounters.
Year2019
Pages486-500
Keyword(s)Jewish migration; assimilation; cookbooks; domesticity; family history; Evi Balint