Babka, Boulou & Blintzes
Jewish Chocolate Recipes from Around the World
Author: Michael Leventhal
 
Highlights
An unprecedented collection of weird and wonderful Jewish chocolate recipes, from traditional babka to chocolate soup and chocolate aubergine caponata.
Discover the history of chocolate in Jewish food and culture with this unique recipe book, bringing together individual recipes from more than fifty noted Jewish bakers. This is the perfect book for chocoholics, anyone keen to grow their repertoire of chocolate-based recipes, or those with an interest in the diverse ways that chocolate is used around the world.
Recipes with influences from Russia, Mexico, England, Israel, North America, Turkey, Egypt, Portugal, the Netherlands and more.
All sales of this book will support Chai Cancer Care
Recipes from 50 of the world’s best-known Jewish cooks and writers
"The best book about chocolate I have ever read – terrific recipes, gorgeous photography and a unique cultural perspective. As with all the best Jewish cookbooks, you want to dive in and eat till you feel sick. Then eat some more." – Giles Coren
‘Beautifully presented and the recipes look marvellous. I can’t wait to try them!’ - Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat
Highlights include Claudia Roden’s Spanish hot chocolate, the Gefilteria’s dark chocolate and roasted beetroot icecream, Honey & Co’s marble cake and Joan Nathan’s chocolate almond cake. As well as recipes for sweet-toothed readers, savoury dishes include Alan Rosenthal’s chocolate chilli and Denise Phillips' Sicilian caponata. There are also
delicious naturally gluten-free and vegan recipes to cater to a variety of dietary requirements.
Each recipe helps provide an insight into the important role chocolate has played in Jewish communities across the centuries, from Jewish immigrants and refugees taking chocolate from Spain to France in the 1600s, to contemporary Jewish bakers crossing continents to discover, adapt and share new chocolate recipes for today’s generation.
 
Babka, Boulou & Blintzes is a unique collection published in conjunction with the British Jewish charity Chai Cancer Care. 
 
The book can be purchased directly from Chai at ww.chaicancercare.org/chocolate.
About the Author
Michael Leventhal is the publisher of Greenhill Books and Green Bean Books. The Chocolate King is his first book for children and won a PJ Library Author Incentive Award. Previously he founded Gefiltefest, a Jewish food charity which organised Europe's biggest Jewish food festival. 
He is co-author of "Jews in Britain" and edited "The Hand of History"  (illustrated by Chris Riddell). He eats a lot of chocolate. You can see more of his work at  www.michaelleventhal.co.uk
NEW BOOK RELEASE     RRP: £25                 ISBN: 9781784386993         144 PAGES · HARDBACKPUBLISHED: AUGUST      2021                  GREEN BEAN BOOKS