New This Week: October 8th
Celebrate the delicious fusion of Jewish and Mexican culinary traditions or learn about how native North Americans sparked a communications revolution through inscription with our two new books that publish today. Check out today’s new books or visit our Hot Off The Press page to see everything new this month.
Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook by By Ilan Stavans, Margaret E. Boyle; preface by Leah Koenig; photographs by Ilan Rabchinskey
“An enthralling insight into cooking in the extraordinarily mixed and vibrant Jewish Mexican community. This engaging book makes use of local produce and melds Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi styles with the flavors of Mexico.”—Claudia Roden, food writer
“This is the book I have long been waiting for! With insight and knowledge, Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle show the way Jewish food travels around the world with its people. These delicious dishes weave together ingredients, traditions, and techniques and shine a light on what happens when people enrich each other’s tables. Cheers to the incredible authors.”—Pati Jinich, author of Treasures of the Mexican Table and host of the Emmy-nominated series Pati’s Mexican Table
Inscribing Sovereignties: Writing Community in Native North America by Phillip H. Round
“The scope of Round’s book is impressive, and the prose is engaging, with moments of real poetry and inspiration. But its biggest payoff is to advance the comparative study of Indigenous languages and orthographies across the Western Hemisphere and around the world. Round’s narrative of the history of Indigenous media can help lead researchers and Indigenous communities themselves not just to obscured histories but to inspirations for transformative practices.”—Matt Cohen, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
“Round reveals how Native North Americans put material literacy practices to decolonizing ends, sustaining culture, building community, asserting tribal authority, and expressing individual experience. This book puts to rest any lingering narratives of a divide between oral and written culture as it traces a number of ways in which Indigenous peoples brought spoken languages and linguistic practices into writing and back out again, sustaining living, vibrant vernacular languages.”—Laura Mielke, University of Kansas