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This cookbook, Joan Nathan's first, captures the diverse culinary traditions of Jerusalem, showcasing recipes from Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It was initially rejected by several publishers due to its non-kosher content, highlighting the city's multiculturalism.
You got the idea for your first cookbook, The Flavor of Jerusalem, when you were working as a foreign press out of Shea for the mayor of Jerusalem in the early 1970s.
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Episode: Can Food Save The World? with Joan Nathan
This cookbook, Joan Nathan's first, captures the diverse culinary traditions of Jerusalem, showcasing recipes from Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It was initially rejected by several publishers due to its non-kosher content, highlighting the city's multiculturalism.
You got the idea for your first cookbook, The Flavor of Jerusalem, when you were working as a foreign press out of Shea for the mayor of Jerusalem in the early 1970s.
And I sat down with Jews, Christians, Muslims, people that were proud of their food.
The book was rejected by more than it doesn't publishers because you were highlighting the fact that Jerusalem was a mosaic of Jews, Christians and Muslims.
These were American publishers they thought it was Jerusalem and we didn't want to make it kosher because we felt that there were Jews, Christians and Muslims in Jerusalem.
And we should show everybody and actually one of the recipes in the flavor of Jerusalem was a shrimp or a sukiyaki.