Cooperative Cooking
Cooperative Cooking
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Title: Cooperative Cooking
Author: Sisterhood of the Forest Park Jewish Center
Publication: Iowa Falls, Iowa: General Publishing and Binding, 1969.
Description: Community cookbook by the Sisterhood of the Forest Park Jewish Center in Glendale in the borough of Queens, New York City, compiled and edited by Roslyn Trager. All recipes have been authenticated as Kosher, and their authors are provided. In addition to recipes, the cookbook contains a glossary of cooking terms, general cooking tips, blessings, traditional foods served for the Sabbath, and other pertinent information for Jewish cooking. The final leaf contains an advertisement for the publisher, a company "founded by two women who are dedicating their time to printing Cook Books for Churches and other organizations at a cost that they can afford to pay."
Laid in are two newspaper clippings of recipes, a handwritten list of ingredients, and a printed list of lipid-lowering foods. Comb-bound in yellow card covers printed in black, with plastic overlays protecting the covers. [2], 148, [2] pages; 8.75 x 7.75 inches. Mild bumping to corners of covers; offsetting of laid-in newspaper clippings on verso of front cover; several leaves mildly soiled at the edges. Very Good+. Rather clean and intact for a used cookbook. Not in Worldcat; only two copies of a later 1974 edition appear.
The Forest Park Jewish Center was founded in the 1950s in Queens, New York to meet the needs of Orthodox Jewish families who were living in the Forest Park Cooperative building. Under the guidance of Rabbi Yitzchak A. Sladowsky, the shul grew to over 300 families, with a variety of programs and an active sisterhood. This rare cookbook provides valuable insight into this community of Jewish women and their interactions with food in the 1960s.
References:
Saphirstein, Shabsie. "Keeping Emunah Alive at Forest Park Jewish Center." QueensJewishLink.com, 5 Mar. 2021, https://www.queensjewishlink.com/index.php/local/26-community-corner/5251-keeping-emunah-alive-at-forest-park-jewish-center.
