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Sacher-Masoch Torte (100% Pure Chocolate and Redcurrant Pleasure)
Desserts & Pastries/Freud & Food/Vegan

Sachertorte Variation: The Sacher-Masoch Cake — A Masochist’s Confection of Memory, Contradiction, and the Jewish Soul of Vienna (Whole-Food Plant-Based, Vegan, SOS-free)

Vienna, that grandiloquent stage of Central European history, remains, at its heart, a city defined by its cakes. The Sachertorte, that dark, glossy monument of...

Jewish Vienna's Potato Salad - Healthy Vegan Miso-Kissed Erdäpfelsalat
Appetizers/Salad/Vegan/Vegetables

Potato Salad: The Soul of Vienna — A Jewish Culinary Legacy (Healthy Vegan)

There are some things, dear reader, that simply are. Like the Danube flowing ever eastward, or the persistent charm of a perfectly prepared Wiener Melange—Vienn...

Delicious Healthy Vegan No-Bake Cheesecake for Shavuot with Raspberry Coulis
Desserts & Pastries/Vegan

Healthy Vegan No-Bake Jewish Cheesecake for a Succulent Shavuot-Treat & TikkunOlam (WFPB SOS-free Recipe)

After much experimentation and a significant personal journey, I’m delighted to share a new delicious evolution of our beloved Shavuot cheesecake: a delectable ...

Two apricot dumplings on a white plate - one open cut in half (potato dough)
Desserts & Pastries/Vegan

Apricot Dumplings: Mahler’s Melodious “Marillenknödel” — A Dive into the Jewish Heritage of the Beloved Delicacy: VEGAN Potato-Dough (WFPB SOS-free Recipe)

As a proud Jewish Viennese food blogger, I find immense joy in delving into the rich culinary tapestry woven by the ancestors of my people. Among the many delig...

Mushroom Cholent -- Vegan WFPB SOS-Free
Freud & Food/Vegan/Vegetables

Mushroom Cholent: Freud’s Foraged Feast – The Definitive Viennese Vegan Shabbos Treat (WFPB SOS-Free Recipe)

What follows is the culmination of years of refinement, a recipe for mushroom cholent that has earned a cherished place in my culinary repertoire. This dish, bo...

wild strawberries
All Recipes/Vegan

A Personal Journey: Health, Tradition, and the Future of Jewish Viennese Food

I want to share a personal journey with you, one that has deeply impacted both my life and my relationship with this blog. Over the past few years, I encountere...

Mound of Mock Chopped Liver Paté à la Rothschild with Gold Leaf and a Sliver of Truffle
Appetizers/Side dishes/Vegan/Vegetables

The Best “Mock Chopped Liver” Ever! Vegan Caramelized Onion Mushroom Pâté à la Rothschild: An Elegant Viennese Version of The Iconic Ashkenazi Jewish Vegetarian Soul Food (Shabbosdik & Kosher for Passover Recipe)

Chopped liver, also known as pâté de foie in French when finely purréed or — generally, when more coarsely chopped, as gehakte leber in Yiddish — is a beloved t...

Caramelized cabbage and noodles (Krautfleckerln)
Desserts & Pastries/Pasta dishes/Side dishes/Vegan/Vegetables

“Krautfleckerln,” Cabbage & Noodles from Vienna: Friedrich Kantor-Berg’s (aka Torberg) Famous Character Tante Jolesch and Her Legendary Dish, of Which There Was Never Enough! (Fried Cabbage Pasta Recipe)

Tante Jolesch (aunt Jolesch, pronounced “Yollesh”) was admired for her Krautfleckerln, which is Viennese German for fried cabbage and noodles. In Yiddish, we’r...

challah with knife - Vegan Hasidic Water Challah
Breads/Vegan

Vegan Challah = Traditional Water Challah (i.e., Israeli “Hasidic” Challah): The Challah From The Famous Viznitz Bakery In Bnei Brak (Parve Recipe)

Spoiler: I will disclose here, to the English-reading world, the holy recipe of the famed Hasidic vegan challah (the Jewish Sabbath and holiday bread) from the ...

Hamantascherln — Small Pockets, Viennese Style: Melt-In-The-Mouth Jewish Purim Cookies. The Whole Megillah! (Recipe) #PurimKekse #OzneiHaman #WienerTascherln #Hamantashen
Desserts & Pastries

Viennese Hamantaschen: Melt-in-the-Mouth Jewish Purim Cookie Recipe — The Whole Megillah! (Hamantascherln)

This is an authentic, Old-Vienna recipe for the triangular cookies of the Jewish holiday Purim. Purim is something like a Jewish Mardi Gras. I’m presenting Vien...

Vegetraian Matzo Ball Soup
Soups/Vegetables

Vegetarian Matzo Ball Soup: Vienna’s Ultimate Golden Homemade Roasted Garden Vegetable Broth & The Perfect 91 Matzoh Dumplings (Matzo Kneidlach Soup Recipe)

I confess to a long-standing affection for the matzoball, perhaps for its ease in swallowing whole. The small round form, always fashioned by hand, passed over ...

Linzer torte with Jewish star of David lattice
Desserts & Pastries

Linzer Torte & Cookies, Jewish Classics Straight from Vienna’s Pastry Shops and Coffeehouses! (Recipes)

This nutty and crumbly cake, which is a tart, sweet, and world-famous showstopper, is one of the oldest around. It remains one of the best-known Viennese pastri...

A glass of red wine being poured from a bottle. Austria's Little Red Wines Tested — IMHO, With Some Jewish Considerations! #KosherWine #ShevaKehillos
Beverages

Red Wine: Austria’s Great Little Ones Tested — IMHO. With Some Jewish Considerations (Sheva Kehillos)

1934 in Vienna 73,6% of the wine trade was in Jewish hands. Today, Austrian wines are the best-kept secret of the wine world [...] The innovative and quality-dr...

Yom Kippur Yeast Gugelhupf Bundt Cake-Blog
Desserts & Pastries

Gugelhupf Bundt Cake(s): Vienna’s Classic Coffeehouse Pleasures According To Dorie Greenspan – The Jewish Connections (Yom Kippur Recipe)

My favorite cake tin is, doubtless, the celebrated so-called “bundt,” or “Gugelhupf” in Vienna (pronounced “google hoopf”). The Gugelhupf bundt cake is, among o...

"Gefilte fish," stuffed carp steaks with "chrain," beet horseradish and jellied broth on a plate..
Appetizers/Fish

Two Old Vienna “Gefilte Fish” Recipes: One Fried & One Poached “Rabbi” Style, Stuffed Back Into Carp Steaks With Its “Kapl,” Red “Chrain” And Jellied “Yoich” (Recipes)

Famed New York Times food critic Mimi Sheraton once wrote that gefilte fish, Yiddish for "stuffed fish"—nowadays served as poached or fried oblong fish patties—...

"Kaiserschmarrn", the emperor's messy soufflé pancake in all its glory!
Desserts & Pastries/Eggs

“Kaiserschmarrn,” Vienna’s Shredded Soufflé Pancake: The Emperor’s Light & Fluffy “Mess” With A “Roasted” Fruit Stew at Pre-Holocaust Kosher Restaurant Neugröschel (Recipe).

Kaiserschmarrn is the epitome of Vienneseness—and there's nothing like this thick fluffy scrambled crêpe whispering golden imperial Vienna in your ears!From...

Viennese "Vanilla" Steak Vienna's Garlic Steak with 18 cloves of garlic gravy
All Recipes/Beef/Freud & Food/Meat

The Garlic People’s (aka The Jews’) Steak: A Roasted Garlic Take on Vienna’s Classic “Vanilla” Steak (Garlic Steak Recipe).

If I use the term "garlic people," does this sound anti-Semitic?In Gil Marks' Encyclopedia of Jewish Food, the author notes that “historically, the addition...

When ready slice the meat and the kishke. Shell and halve the eggs. Serve placing the meat, the kishke and the egg halves on top of the beans and the potatoes. Accompany with gherkins and other pickles, as well as a leafy green salad.
Beef/Freud & Food/Meat

Freud and his Cholent: The Austrian Origins of the Jewish Bean Stew (Scholet Recipe with Vegan Option Inside)

In his youth, Sigmund Freud enjoyed many traditional Jewish foods, including challah, gefilte fish, and above all, cholent (tshoolnt in Southeastern Yiddish), t...

The fantastic Fächertort, or "fan-cake", a flódni in disguise.
Coffee Houses & Pastry Shops/Desserts & Pastries

Vienna’s “Fächertorte”—Jewish Budapest’s “Flódni” Layer Cake in Disguise. (Traditional Recipe)

“FÄCHERTORTE,” says the white-aproned waitress at Vienna's Demel Konditorei (German for pastry shop) from behind the magnificent display case of one of the worl...

Here is a beef tartare prepared as my son likes it, with plenty of capers, gherkins and a healthy dose of Tabasco.
Appetizers/Beef/Freud & Food/Meat

Beef/Steak Tartare: Sigmund Freud’s Breakfast, and Favorite Dish of Claude Lanzmann and Thomas Bernhard (Freudian Brunch Recipe)

First off, you may be wondering why I am talking about steak tartare on a Jewish-Viennese cultural food blog: Is it some rite of passage, an infamous entry gate...

Beautiful Jewish Shabbos challah with sesame
Breads/Freud & Food

“Challah at Ya from Vienna!” The Austrian Origins of The Classic Jewish Braided Eggy Yeast Bread (Iconic Recipe)

Challah assuredly is one of the most iconic of all Jewish foods. Challah is as much a ritual and tradition than it is a recipe. It has a whole array of things a...

artichokes 3 ways - deep fried Jewish-style, braised Roman-style and confit (carciofi alla giudia, carciofi alla romana & carciofi conditi with vinaigrette)
Appetizers/Freud & Food/Vegan/Vegetables

Roman Jewish Artichoke’s 3+ Ways: Braised, Deep Fried & Confit/Sous-Vide. Sigmund Freud’s Dream About The Worm In His Favorite Flower, The Jewish Thistle (3+ Vegan Recipes)

THE recent rise in popularity of artichokes in Vienna is neither a recent fad nor a modern-day infatuation with Italy’s decadent cuisine and easy Mediterranean ...

Sauerkraut and sausage soup beef frank
Beef/Meat/Side dishes/Soups

Homemade Sauerkraut Sausage Soup: Jewish History & Vampire Lore (Austro-Hungarian Recipe)

What does a blog about Jewish Viennese food have to do with vampires and an imaginary Transylvanian shtetl? First of all, there are obvious parallels in vampire...

Real Sachertorte by Leschanz the chocolate king at Cafe Schwarzenberg in Vienna (closer)
Coffee Houses & Pastry Shops/Desserts & Pastries/Freud & Food

Sachertorte, the Jewish Masculine Chocolate Cake from Vienna’s Lost Coffeehouse Past: Sigmund Freud’s Beloved Dessert (Recipe)

A love-hate relationship with Vienna is not only characteristic for Wittgenstein's nephew but also for the way Sigmund Freud connected with the city's food and ...

A plate with goulash (gulyás) Wiener Saftgulasch Vienna's gravy paprika beef stew
Beef/Freud & Food/Meat

Goulash — Vienna’s Beef Stew: Recipe for the Best Uber-Authentic Austro-Hungarian Paprika Gravy Beef Ragoût

Even though the name of Vienna's world-famous beef stew is a corruption of the Hungarian word for cowboy, gulyás, the recipe itself does not stem from neighbori...

Didn't we say you have to refrigerate it for a couple of hours at least?
Desserts & Pastries/Eggs/Freud & Food

Vienna’s Tiramisu & Oedipus: Freud’s Unconscious Dessert (Recipe & Origins)

Beyond the recipe: Explore Tiramisu's true origins and its fascinating Oedipal connection to Sigmund Freud. A dessert deep in history & psychology. Eating h...

This juicy, “saftig” in German (of utmost importance here!), and lean Viennese beef cut is called Mageres Meisel (or Mäuserl) and is a typical piece of meat served as boiled beef. Here I serve it with a small ladle of soup, topped with chives, coarse sea salt, alongside a potato rösti (a latke) and, of course, horseradish (I had my beloved apple-horseradish and beet-horseradish just outside the frame).
Beef/Freud & Food/Meat/Soups

The Freuds’ Beloved Tafelspitz: Vienna’s Simmered Beef (Recipe & History)

This potentially dreary Viennese dish of boiled beef, called tafelspitz, is made here with high-grade cuts of meat, which are simmered for hours to an almost un...

a slice of a whole blooming-Jewish-cheesecake-4x5-featured
Desserts & Pastries

Blooming Jewish Cheesecake with Tablets of the Law Crust: Freud, Moses & a Mel Brooks Joke (Shavuot Recipe)

What if your favorite cheesecake holds the key to ancient guilt? Dive into the profound link between Shavuot, the shattered tablets of Moses, and Sigmund Freud'...

Freud's asparagus the vegan wiener
Appetizers/Freud & Food/Vegan/Vegetables

Freud’s Asparagus, the Vegan Wiener – Two Recipes: White French with Hazelnuts and Light Vinaigrette & Sautéed Green Italian with Olives and Lime (Recipe) #VoluptuousVegan #FeministFood

There's hardly any food you would more expect to find on a website dedicated to Freudian recipes – after wiener and sausages, of course – than asparagus. I call...

Gourmet Hand Matzo Brei Sweet and Savory with Caramelized Onions, Truffle and Honey on a plate
Breakfast/Desserts & Pastries/Eggs

Gourmet Hand Matzo Brei: Sweet & Savory with Caramelized Onions, Truffle and Honey (Recipe) #GalitzianerInVienna

Matzo brei, in essence, is nothing but Yiddish for matzo, the unleavened bread, aka the Jewish cracker eaten during Passover, fried with eggs. Those not familia...

The Foodnik’s Good Reads on Sigmund Freud, Vienna’s Cuisine & Jewish Cooking #CookingTherapy Read more https://JewishVienneseFood.com/the-foodniks-good-reads-on-sigmund-freud-viennas-cuisine-jewish-cooking-cookingtherapy/
cookbooks/Freud & Food/Good Reads

The Foodnik’s Good Reads on Sigmund Freud, Vienna’s Cuisine & Jewish Cooking #CookingTherapy

As readers asked me about good books, not only cookbooks, to read about Vienna, I finally came up with a list of major references about the city, Jewish cooking...

Golden Souffléd Schnitzel, Vienna’s Famous Puffed-Up Golden Calf Cutlet The Fried Icon and Its Surprising History (Recipe) #WienerSchnitzel
Freud & Food/Meat/Shopping for Food/Veal

Golden Souffléd Schnitzel, Vienna’s Famous Puffed-Up Golden Calf Cutlet: The Fried Icon and Its Surprising History (Recipe) #WienerSchnitzel #Shnitzel

A golden Wiener schnitzel, pronounced sh-nitt-sell, the Vienna cutlet, can be a crisp, light, and tender, heavenly treat served in one of the world's best resta...

1980s Grapefruit Brûlée & Paul Gauguin’s Caramelized Pamplemousse (Recipe) #SchönbrunnPalaceOrangery
Appetizers/Breakfast/Desserts & Pastries/Vegan

1980s Grapefruit Brûlée & Paul Gauguin’s Caramelized Pamplemousse (Recipe) #SchönbrunnPalaceOrangery

A grapefruit's two halves are meant to be shared with your beloved(s). They are like Yoko Ono's Grapefruit dream, which becomes reality once two dream together....

Perfect Potato Latkes: Yiddish vs. Hebrew & Schmaltz vs. Oil (Recipe) #Erdäpfelpuffer #Rösti
Appetizers/Breakfast/Desserts & Pastries/Side dishes/Vegetables

Perfect Potato Latkes: Yiddish vs. Hebrew & Schmaltz vs. Oil (Recipe) #Erdäpfelpuffer #Rösti #ContemporaryVienneseRecipe

Eight days of intensive testing have yielded this authoritative latke story and recipe. Potato pancakes and hash browns are eaten all over the world. Going by t...

Vienna’s Jelly Doughnuts & Uri Scheft’s Sufganiyot (Recipe) #Krapfen
Desserts & Pastries/Freud & Food

Vienna’s Jelly Doughnuts & Uri Scheft’s Sufganiyot (Recipe) #Ponchikis #Krapfen

In recent years champagne-creme-filled and gold-leaf-topped donuts and sufganiyot have been en vogue. Try these wonderfully homey jelly doughnuts for a change. ...

Speedy Old-Vienna No-Knead Bread & Vienna’s Best Bakeries (Recipe) #AltwienerHausbrot
Breads/Freud & Food/Shopping for Food/Vegan

Speedy Old-Vienna No-Knead Bread & Vienna’s Best Bakeries (Recipe) #AltwienerHausbrot

Join me for this ridiculously easy Viennese version of the wildly famous no-knead bread. Indeed, Vienna is not immune to the bread hype of the last decade. The ...

Two Peeled Soft-Boiled Eggs in a Glass (with stem) Vienna Coffee-House Virility (Recipe) #EierImGlas
Breakfast/Eggs/Freud & Food

Two Peeled Soft-Boiled Eggs in a Glass (with stem): Vienna Coffee-House Virility (Recipe) #EierImGlas

This is THE breakfast classic of Viennese coffeehouses. And yes, most Viennese I've asked admitted to childishly associating this pair of eggs with the male ana...

Quince Poached in Viennese White Wine (Recipe) #QuitteWienerGemischterSatz
Desserts & Pastries

Quince Poached in Viennese White Wine (Recipe) #QuitteWienerGemischterSatz

Nothing bland about this poached fruit! Cherished and cultivated for its intense floral fragrance since the time of the Akkadians, the quince has a smell so won...

מצותינדדזל (Matzo Island) Installation by Sebestyén Fiumei #Mazzesinsel
Freud & Food

מצותינדזל (Matzo Island) Installation by Sebestyén Fiumei #Mazzesinsel

The repressed always makes its return – even in Vienna. In March 2015, Ruth Beckermann could albeit only temporarily, correct Austria's "memorial to the eternal...

Wine from Vienna “Wiener Gemischter Satz” #UrbanVineyards
Beverages/Freud & Food

Wine from Vienna: “Wiener Gemischter Satz” #UrbanVineyards

In German, Vienna is Wien, and wine is Wein. Coincidence? Perhaps not. More important, Wein/wine sounds like whine, which surely is the Viennese's favorite past...

Grüner Veltliner Wine Vienna’s Most Popular White Wine
Beverages/Freud & Food

Grüner Veltliner Wine: Vienna’s Most Popular White Wine

It's funny to make a post about wine, as a rather moderate drinker. But when I do have a glass, I try to get the best. Interestingly, there is wine unique to th...

Best Roast Chicken Recipe Simple, Juicy & Crispy (Recipe) #VienneseKnobelBrathendl
Poultry

Best Roast Chicken Recipe: Simple, Juicy & Crispy (Recipe) #VienneseKnobelBrathendl

The average Central European backyard chicken was eaten only once either a family member or the chicken got sick. They're best left to lay eggs, according to Si...

Vienna Woods Vineyard Heuriger with Scenic View (Reclaiming Heimat) #Kahlenberg
Freud & Food/Restaurants & Bars

Vienna Woods Vineyard Heuriger with Scenic View (Reclaiming Heimat) #Kahlenberg

What an incredibly beautiful place, especially in autumn: The vineyards of the legendary Vienna Woods, the Wienerwald! Just look at these pictures I took on thi...

Kosher Salt Where to Buy & How to Substitute #CookingInVienna
Condiments & Seasonings

Kosher Salt: Where to Buy & How to Substitute #CookingInVienna

Have you ever tried to follow a recipe that specifically calls for kosher salt? And then you realized you can't find it in any store? Unfortunately, kosher salt...

Classic Viennese Apple Strudel – The Secrets to Easy, Crispy Wiener Strudel and its Innuendos (recipe & video) #apfelstrudel
Desserts & Pastries/Freud & Food

Classic Viennese Apple Strudel – The Secrets to Easy, Crispy Wiener Strudel and its Innuendos (recipe & video) #apfelstrudel #VeganOption

Are all strudels wieners? The strudel is a classic Viennese delicacy. In Germany, it's called Wiener Strudel, or "Viennese strudel". But "wiener" and "strudel" ...

Zwetschkenkuchen (Plum Tart) Politics (recipe & video)
Desserts & Pastries

Zwetschkenkuchen (Plum Tart) Politics (recipe & video)

A political dessert - "Blue fruit on a brown base": In autumn, when plums are in season, it is traditional to have plum tart for the high holidays, Rosh Hashana...

Welcome!

I'm Nino Shaye Weiss, an unrstrained foodnik kibbitzing (i.e., blogging) from Vienna—a city steeped in history and culture, once both loved and loathed by Sigmund Freud. Vienna has long been home to celebrated Jewish thinkers and artists: Theodor Herzl, Gustav Mahler, Viktor Frankl, Martin Buber, Stefan Zweig, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Arnold Schoenberg, Erich von Stroheim, and more.

This blog is a private, non-profit endeavor—a true family affair. When I say “we,” I mean not just myself but:

 • My wife, whose discerning palate and sharp insights guide our culinary adventures;
 • Our children, loyal (if occasionally unconsenting) taste-testers;
 • And our guests, who become, willingly or not, part of our gastronomic experiments.

Together, we endeavor to pay tribute to both these famous figures and the anonymous Jew of pre-Shoah Jewish Vienna. By digging into memory’s kitchen, we explore their once-rich, now-vanished food traditions—from Italian and Hungarian influences to Bohemian and Galician—uncovering their eclectic flavors and unique stories.

This is our virtual kitchen.
Think of it as armchair therapy for a fictional restaurant, where Freud-inflected musings mingle as we savor lost flavors and recover forgotten stories of Jewish Viennese cuisine.

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