Dr. Susan Weingarten is an archaeologist and food historian. She is an Associate Fellow of the Albright Institute for Archaeological Reseach in Jerusalem, and holds an M.A. from Oxford and a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv. After writing her first book, The Saint’s Saints: Geography and Hagiography in Jerome, (Brill: Leiden 2003) she got tired of ascetic Christianity and moved on to Jewish food in her second book, Haroset: A Taste of Jewish History (Koren: Jerusalem 2019). She is currently finishing a third book, Ancient Jewish Food in its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What’s Cooking in the Talmuds? (forthcoming from Routledge).
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The land of milk and honey, the ladder to heaven, Mount Sinai, the seven heavens—these are some of the themes explored in Shavuot’s food history.
The land of milk and honey, the ladder to heaven, Mount Sinai, the seven heavens—these are some of the themes explored in Shavuot’s food history.
