Nora L Rubel, author of RECIPES FOR THE MELTING POT

In conversation with Lilly J Goren. Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Nora L Rubel, author of Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of the Settlement Cook Book. In conversation with Lilly J Goren. Cosponsored by Stahl Center for Jewish Studies. In 1901, Lizzie Black Kander put together what would become a decades-long bestselling cookbook based on the classes she taught at the Milwaukee Jewish Mission. In Recipes for the Metling Pot, Rubel traces this famous cookbook's evolution across forty editions over several decades, through waves of immigration, shifting gender roles, upward mobility, and suburbanization. Click here to order a copy of Recipes for the Melting Pot from Boswell. Signed copies are available on most event preorders. If you have a personalization request, enter it in "order comments" at checkout. Please note: signed copies will ship after the event. Remember to select "In Store Pickup" at check out to avoid unnecessary shipping fees on books you intend to pick up at the event. Nora L Rubel is the Elizabeth Denio Professor in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester. She is the author of Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination, as well as coeditor of Religion, Food, and Eating in North America, and Blessings Beyond the Binary: "Transparent" and the Queer Jewish Family.