Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook (Book Launch and Meet-the-Author)

Join us for the book launch of Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook and meet the author, Bowdoin professor Margaret E. Boyle! Sabor Judío celebrates the delicious fusion of two culinary traditions, Jewish and Mexican. More than “just” a cookbook, it is also a vibrant history of Jewish immigration to Mexico from 1492 to the present. It explains how flavors and dishes evolved in Mexican and Jewish kitchens and how they fused into a distinct cuisine, mainly by the labor of Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, and converso women. Written with joy and verve and featuring 100 deeply personal recipes, this lavishly illustrated book demonstrates how cooking and eating connect Jewish Mexicans across places and generations.

About the Author

Margaret E. Boyle is the Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at Bowdoin College and Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies. She is also the Director of Multilingual Matters, an elementary word languages and cultures program providing age-appropriate tools to combat xenophobia, racism, and intolerance through engagement with languages other than history. Sabor Judío, which Boyle co-authored with Ilan Stavans, is her first published cookbook.

Registration is free but required.
Autographed copies of the cookbook will be available for purchase.

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