Learn to Cook with Hélène Jawhara-Piñer

Sunday, Jul 11, 2021

Sunday, July 11 at 10 am ET
Program available on Zoom only
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Join us this sunday as we learn to cook a meal with Author, Historian and Chef, Hélène Jawhara-Piñer. In this, the eleventh episode of the American Sephardi Federation’s series, Sephardic Culinary History with Hélène Jawhara-Piñer attendees will learn to prepare two sephardic salads with foods from the new world. Click here to find the ingredient list.

About the Hélène Jawhara-Piñer

Hélène Jawhara Piñer is a PhD in Medieval History and the History of Food. She was awarded the American Sephardi Federation’s Broome and Allen Fellowship in 2018 in recognition of her impressive academic accomplishments and service of the Sephardic community. Her research interests are the medieval culinary history of Spain through inter and multiculturalism with a special focus on the Jewish culinary heritage written in Arabic. From Barcelona, Santa Barbara, Bar-Ilan University in Israel and beyond, Piñer has given lectures on subjects such as Reflections on the Jewish heritage according to the Kitab al-tabih, “Jewish cuisine in old cookbooks of the Iberian Peninsula”, “Jews and Muslims at the Table” and much more.

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This program is presented by the The American Sephardi Federation in partnership with the National Museum of American Jewish History