What does Sigmund Freud’s Kaiserschmarrn have to do with Golda Meir’s kitchenette , how is chocolate related to the expulsion from Spain, and what’s the connection between couscous and Albert Einstein’s strawberries and cream?
ANU – Museum of the Jewish People and FOODISH, the culinary department, present new audio tours, dedicated to stories behind foods, researched and gathered by Prof. Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblet, Dr. Tova Dickstein, Claudia Roden and Joan Nathan.
Kindly note: the audio tours are available in Hebrew on your mobile phone. Please bring your own earphones.
Launched during Hanukkah holiday, the tours will tell you how Jewish merchants helped spreading chocolate across the globe; how the brilliance of an Eastern European immigrant who gave a new interpretation to a Portuguese recipe gave rise to English fish and chips; and also what was the connection between Dafina (stew) and denouncing Jews during the Inquisition. We will trace the hospitality customs of Sigmund Freud, go behind the scenes of two competing confectioners who fought each other for credit for inventing one of the most popular cakes in Austria, hear about the protest of Jewish women in America that shook the kosher meat market, and finally understand why couscous is served on Tuesdays.
You can experience the tour in a variety of different ways: An audio tour for adults, edited and voiced by beloved culinary expert Gil Hovav; an audio tour for children, edited by the podcasters Yuval Segal and Yigal Shapira.
The new tours will be accompanied by special activities: actors will bring to life characters from the tours, such as David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Albert Einstein and more. And our beloved “Heroes” gallery, which presents a wide variety of our superheroes, groundbreaking Jewish men and women in an interactive and experiential way.
