{"id":1481,"date":"2023-02-18T23:32:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T23:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2023-02-18T23:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T23:57:05","slug":"your-next-jewish-read-koshersoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/your-next-jewish-read-koshersoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Next Jewish Read: KosherSoul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top has-medium-font-size\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"698\" height=\"1050\" src=\"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KosherSoul.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1484 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KosherSoul.png 698w, https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KosherSoul-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KosherSoul-681x1024.png 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Title:<\/strong><em> KosherSoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew<\/em><br><br><strong>Author:<\/strong> Michael Twitty<br><br><strong>Year of Publication<\/strong>: 2022<br><br><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> HarperCollins (Read a sample <a href=\"https:\/\/preview.aer.io\/Koshersoul-NDQ4OTcy?social=1&amp;retail=1&amp;emailcap=0\">here<\/a>)<br><br><strong>Why I Bought\/Borrowed It:<\/strong> I saw KosherSoul on the new books display at my awesome public library branch. I immediately snatched it up.<br><br><strong>Two Sentence Summary:<\/strong> To continue with a food-related metaphor, <em>KosherSoul<\/em> is a smorgasbord of ideas, history, reflections, personal stories, interviews, and of course, recipes. It is about the interconnectedness and richness of African-Jewish culture; the diaspora of people, food, and cuisine; and also about racism and the questioning of Black Jewishness that continues within the Jewish, and broader, community.<br><br><strong>You May Know Michael Twitty from:<\/strong> <em>The Cooking Gene <\/em>(winner of the James Beard Foundation Book of the Year Award 2018), his numerous appearances, and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thecookinggene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Insta<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Additional Notes:<\/strong> This book is immensely readable and I will need to read it once again to glean all this memoir has to offer.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: KosherSoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew Author: Michael Twitty Year of Publication: 2022 Publisher: HarperCollins (Read a sample here)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[78],"tags":[83,82,38,81,80],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-next-jewish-read","tag-african-americans","tag-diaspora","tag-food","tag-memoir","tag-michael-twitty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KosherSoul-1-e1676763478211.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}