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Vilna Vegetarian | Fania Lewando

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The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook by Fania Lewando 

I first read about this cookbook by Fania Lewando last year in a article for Tablet (I think?) and was itching to get my hands on it, ever since. This remarkable book was originally written in Yiddish and published in 1938. Fania owned a popular vegetarian restaurant in Vilna, Lithuania where notable artists, like Marc Chagall, would frequent. The original copies of this cookbook were lost for quite some time until a copy was donated to YIVO. 

As someone who is deeply proud and interested in my Jewish heritage and identity, connection through food is important. However, so much of what we think of Ashkenazi Jewish food is meat related- lox, schnitzel, cholent- so I’ve never been able to participate in that aspect of Jewish food culture. I actually always felt a little left out of the conversation but in looking at The Vilna Vegetarian, Fania has created her own meat free takes on these classics of Jewish cooking. I am so ready to dive into the world of Jewish cooking through this book. She also writes about vegetarianism as a Jewish movement, which is very interesting. 

Fania and her husband were killed in the Holocaust, yet through this cookbook her legacy lives on. Turning the pages of this cookbook gives me chills for numerous reasons, one of them being that in cooking her recipes I am keeping her life’s work alive, because as one person wrote in her restaurant guestbook, she was “the poet of the vegetarian kitchen.” 

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‘The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook’ Was Ahead of Its Time

Yes, vegetarianism existed in 1930s Lithuania. And one woman wrote a cookbook all about it.

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‘The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook’ Was Ahead of Its Time

Yes, vegetarianism existed in 1930s Lithuania. And one woman wrote a cookbook all about it.

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Veggie Vegan Recipes / The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today's Kitchen

Veggie Vegan Recipes / The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today’s Kitchen

Beautifully translated for a new generation of devotees of delicious and healthy eating: a groundbreaking, mouthwatering vegetarian cookbook originally published in Yiddish in pre–World War II Vilna and miraculously rediscovered more than half a century later. In 1938, Fania Lewando, the proprietor of a popular vegetarian restaurant in Vilna, Lithuania, published a Yiddish vegetarian cookbook…

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Hebrew speakers! If you are interested in Fania Levando, check the article above about her.

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The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook by Fania Lewando

The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook by Fania Lewando

Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today’s Kitchen Translator: Eve Jochnowitz Foreword: Joan Nathan

The book offers an ample choice of stewed dishes, blintzes, omelets, porridges, kugels, puddings, latkes, stuffed foods, sauces, baked goods, vitamin drinks, and Passover foods. The chapter called Cutlets contains various recipes that call for nuts, cabbage, beans, buckwheat kasha,…

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Eve Jachnowitz who recently translated Fania Lewando’s Vegetarish-dietisher kokhbukh into English has a great cooking show at Forverts Video Channel, where she cooks “in Yiddish” with Rukhl Schaechter.