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The 20 Best Jewish/Israeli/Kosher Restaurants in Vienna
Top 4 Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurants in Vienna
Coffee Houses: 20+1 Best Must See Cafés in Vienna #CoffeeHouseCulture #Kaffeehaus
Pastry Shops: Vienna’s 11+1 Very Best Must-Visit Patisseries and Confectioneries #Konditorei
Bakeries: Vienna’s 15 Best! (Kosher & More)
Books & Movies: The Very Best 100+ for Your Viennese, Jewish, and Culinary Therapy
Vienna Woods Vineyard Heuriger with Scenic View (Reclaiming Heimat) #Kahlenberg
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Hi, I'm Nino Shaye Weiss, an unbridled foodnik kibbitzing (aka blogging) from Vienna, the city of dreams, the home Sigmund Freud loved and hated, the uncanny home of many world-famous Jews like Theodor Herzl, Gustav Mahler, Viktor Frankl, Martin Buber, Stefan Zweig, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Arnold Schoenberg, etc. In memory's kitchen, I'm cooking up an armchair therapy for a fictitious restaurant made of recipes and stories from Jewish Viennese cuisine and its eclectic influences — Italian, Hungarian, Bohemian, Galician and many more — with often a Freudian twist…

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Blooming Jewish Cheesecake with Tablets of the Law Crust: Freud, Moses & a Mel Brooks Joke (Recipe) #EdibleFlowers #Shavuot #Topfentorte
Jews the world over (but famously in New York and Chicago) love cheesecake and all its local variations. Those delicacies include …Read More »
Beef/Steak Tartare: Sigmund Freud’s Breakfast, and Favorite Dish of Claude Lanzmann and Thomas Bernhard #cannibals #freudianbrunch
First off, you may be wondering why I am talking about steak tartare on a Jewish-Viennese cultural food blog: Is …Read More »
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 …Read More »
“Kaiserschmarrn,” Vienna’s Shredded Soufflé Pancake: The Emperor’s Light & Fluffy “Mess” With A “Roasted” Fruit Stew at Pre-Holocaust Kosher Restaurant Neugröschel (Recipe). #Sisi #Torberg
Kaiserschmarrn is the epitome of Vienneseness—and there's nothing like this thick fluffy scrambled crêpe whispering golden imperial Vienna in your …Read More »
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 …Read More »
Goulash — Vienna’s Beef Stew: Recipe for the Best Uber-Authentic Austro-Hungarian Paprika Gravy Beef Ragoût #WienerSaftgulasch
Even though the name of Vienna's world-famous beef stew is a corruption of the Hungarian word for cowboy, gulyás, the recipe …Read More »
Jews & Vampires: Homemade Sauerkraut & Vienna’s Garlicky Hungarian Sauerkraut-Sausage Soup inspired by Polanski’s Imaginary Transylvanian Shtetl (Recipe) #Dracula #CulinarySchund
What does a blog about Jewish Viennese food have to do with vampires and an imaginary Transylvanian shtetl? First of …Read More »
“Challah at Ya from Vienna!” The Austrian Origins of The Classic Jewish Braided Eggy Yeast Bread (Recipe) #IconicJewishFood
Challah assuredly is one of the most iconic of all Jewish foods. Challah is as much a ritual and tradition than it …Read More »
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 …Read More »
Freud and his Cholent: The Austrian Origins of the Jewish Bean Stew #צ’ולנט #Sholet #טשאָלנט
In his youth, Sigmund Freud enjoyed many traditional Jewish foods, including challah, gefilte fish, and above all, cholent (tshoolnt in Southeastern Yiddish), …Read More »
Sachertorte, the Jewish Masculine Chocolate Cake from Vienna’s Lost Coffeehouse Past: Sigmund Freud’s Beloved Dessert (Recipe) #FranzSacher #CaféSabarsky #Leschanz #Demel
A love-hate relationship with Vienna is not only characteristic for Wittgenstein's nephew but also for the way Sigmund Freud connected …Read More »
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) #Neugröschel
Famed New York Times food critic Mimi Sheraton once wrote that gefilte fish, Yiddish for "stuffed fish"—nowadays served as poached …Read More »
The Freuds’ Tafelspitz – Vienna’s Imperial Simmered Beef: Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha Bernays and their butcher Siegmund Kornmehl (Recipe) #BoiledBeef #SimmeredBeef #Horseradish
This potentially dreary Viennese dish of boiled beef, called tafelspitz, is made here with high-grade cuts of meat, which are …Read More »
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 …Read More »
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 …Read More »
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 …Read More »
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. …Read More »
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 …Read More »
Perfect Potato Latkes: Yiddish vs. Hebrew & Schmaltz vs. Oil (Recipe) #Erdäpfelpuffer #Rösti
Eight days of intensive testing have yielded this authoritative latke story and recipe. Potato pancakes and hash browns are eaten …Read More »
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, …Read More »
The Garlic People’s (aka The Jews’) Steak: A Roasted Garlic Take on Vienna’s Classic “Vanilla” Steak (Recipe). #GarlicSteak #VanilleRostbraten #♥קנאָבל
If I use the term "garlic people," does this sound anti-Semitic? In Gil Marks' Encyclopedia of Jewish Food, the author …Read More »
Classic Viennese Apple Strudel – The Secrets to Easy, Crispy Wiener Strudel and its Innuendos (recipe & video) #apfelstrudel
Are all strudels wieners? The strudel is a classic Viennese delicacy. In Germany, it's called Wiener Strudel, or "Viennese strudel". …Read More »
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 …Read More »
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 (Recipe) #CarciofiAllaRomana #CarciofiAllaGiudia
THE recent rise in popularity of artichokes in Vienna is neither a recent fad nor a modern-day infatuation with Italy’s …Read More »
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 …Read More »
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 …Read More »
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, …Read More »
Vienna’s Tiramisu & Oedipus: The Making of The Oedipus Complex & The Origin of Italy’s Most Famous Dessert (Recipe) #So1980s #גאָגל-מאָגל
Eating high-calorie delicacies like tiramisu calls for some exercise. My daily walk through Vienna follows one of Sigmund Freud's favorite …Read More »
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 …Read More »
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 …Read More »
Vienna’s “Fächertorte”—Jewish Budapest’s “Flódni” Layer Cake in Disguise. #RachelRaj #Demel
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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 …Read More »

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A History of the World (1981 movie) Breaking Breads Cookbooks Deutsche Kochschule in Prag Die Ballade vom Wiener Schnitzel Dracula Duck Soup (1933 movie) Eat And Be Satisfied Encyclopedia of Jewish Food Forverts פֿאָרווערטס Freud's Butcher (blog) Freud's own Cookbook Good Reads In Search of Plenty - A History of Jewish Food Jewish Cooking in America Kaffeehaus (book) madeleine of Proust Modernist Cuisine Moses and Monotheism Neue Cuisine - The Elegant Tastes of Vienna Plenty More Rest on the Flight into Egypt (painting) Serious Eats Sissi Spago Tante Jolesch or the Decline of the West in Anecdotes The Book of Jewish Food The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews The Classic Cuisines Of The Italian Jews The Classic Dolci of the Italian Jews The Fearless Vampire Killers The Foods of Israel Today The Gefilte Manifesto The Gefilteria The Great Dictator The Interpretation of Dreams The Minimalist Wittgenstein's nephew Zahav - A World of Israeli Cooking Zu Tisch bei Sigmund Freud Zuni Café Cookbook

apple strudel artichokes confit ayva tatlisi Backhendl barches beef stew beef tartare Berliner boiled beef bomboloni bread breakfast bulkos cake carciofi alla giudia carciofi alla romana chasseneh fish (wedding fish) cheese latkes cheesecake chocolate glaze cholent chrain (horseradish) cotogne in giulebbe egg barley Eier im Glas Emperor's Mess Emperor's Whim English custard fächertorte farfel fingers fish cake flódni flódnitorta garlic steak gefilte fish goulash graved-lox gravy Gulasch gulyás hallah hamin hash brown Hausmeisterschnitzel jelly doughnuts Kaiserschmarren Kaiserschmarrn kalacs Kartoffelpuffer kogel-mogel latke levivot Malakoff Torte mandelbrodt matzo balls matzo brei Oedipus Pie oeuf mollet pancake paprikás plum tart poached beef poached quince pontchikes pörkölt potato kugel potato pancake powidl raw meat red chrain (sweet beet horseradish relish) Rindsuppe ritschert roast chicken röster Rösti Sachertorte Salzburger Nockerl sauerkraut sautéed potatoes schnitzel scholet scrambled eggs shnitzel sholet short dough shtritsl soft boiled eggs soldiers sólet soufflé pancakes steak steak à l'Américaine steak tartare strudel stuffed fish tarhonya tart teiglach tiramisu

blowtorch bread knife cast-iron skillet champagne coupe Champagne saucer dutch oven instant read thermometer Martini glass meat thermometer piping bag stand mixer

basic cooking technique beef stock braiding breaded cartouche challah shapes deep frying dehydrating in the refrigerator dry brining fermentation fried jar no-knead bread Nouvelle Cuisine peeling garlic peeling soft boiled eggs poaching ragoût reverse-sear salting early sautée simmered beef simmering soufflé sourdough bread sous-vide speedy no-knead bread stew strudel dough trussing

agar-agar anise seeds apple apricot apricot jam artichokes asparagus baking powder barley beans beef beef shank beef shin beef shoulder clod biftec biskotten black pepper borlotti beans Boskoop Braeburn bread spices breadcrumbs brioche butter Butterkeks (biscuit) cabbage (green) cannellini beans caraway caraway seeds carp chicken chili chives chocolate cinnamon coffee coriander seeds edible flowers egg egg whites eggs espresso farmer cheese farmer's market fennel seeds filo fine herbs fish flour garlic gelatine Granny Smith grapefruit grapes hazelnuts honey horse meat horseradish instant yeast iodine kabanos Kavalierspitz ketchup kolbász kosher salt ladyfingers lemon lemon zest Liebstöckl Maggikraut Luststock lime Lovage lox marjoram mascarpone Matjes herring matzo matzo (matzah) matzo meal meat mint nuts olive oil olives onion paprika parasol mushroom phyllo pastry plum pomegranate poppy seed pork potato prune puffball mushroom quince raisins ramson rindskamm rosemary rum

18 (Chai חַי) anti-Semitism Assimilation balabatish Belz blessing for good smell blood-libel borer (to select/sort) challah Chanukah Oy Chanukah culinary Judaism dairy Fetor Judaicus fiddle Galicia Galitzianer gebrokt Gematria golden calf good omen Haman Hanukkah Hassidim Hebrew Holocaust Italian Jews Jewish Budapest Jewish rye Judith and Holofernes Kabbalah kimmel Knobel Komemiyut matzo kosher chicken kosher food kosher meat Leviathan magen David Manischewitz Moses North American Jews original sin Passover Pesach philo-Semitism Purim Rokeach Rosh Hashanah schund Secular Judaism Seder Seudah shlishit Shabbat Shabbos Shavuot shlissel challah Shoa Siegmund Kornmehl (butcher) star of David Streit's sufganiyot Sukkot Tashlikh Tish Viennese Gzerah winery Hafner women Yiddish Yom Kippur Zionism Zohar

Aida (pastry shop) Altwiener Ankerbrot apfelstrudel Austria Austrian Politics Austrian wine Books about Vienna Brathendl Budapest butcher Byzantine Empire Café Korb Café Landtmann Café Sabarsky Café Sacher Chardonnay coffee-house Danube river Demel (pastry shop) Erdäpfelpuffer fishmarket (Vienna) G'spritzter Gemütlichkeit Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald Gespritzter Ghetto Glasscherbeninsel Golden Viennese Heart grocery shopping in Vienna Grüner Veltliner Grüner Veltliner wine Hausbrot Hauszwetschke Heimat Heiner (pastry shop) Heuriger History of Jews in Vienna Hitler Inländer Rum Israel Joseph Brot Kaffeehaus Kahlenberg Kaiser roll Karmelitermarkt Konditorei Krapfen Kristallnacht Kuchen Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Leopoldstadt Mazzesinsel Meissl & Schadn (hotel-restaurant) Memorial against War and Fascism middle ages Mischbrot Movies about Vienna nationalism Nazis Neue Synagoge (Leopoldskirche) Neugröschel (restaurant) November 9 1938 Nussberg wine mountain Ödön von Horvath old-Vienna Plachutta (restaurants) Quitte right wing Roman Empire Sacher (hotel-restaurant-café) Schlag Schönbrunn Palace Simmering (district of Vienna) Spritz Spritzer Steirereck restaurant Stroh Rum Strudler Tafelspitz Tales from the Vienna Woods Tante Jolesch the best Viennese bakeries The Missing Image installation to whine Tonello (restaurant) Venice Vienna 1900 Vienna 79 (restaurant) Vienna panoramic view Vienna woods Vienna's smallest vineyard Viennese cuts of beef Viennese field blend wine Viennese vieneyard Viennese wine violin Wien-Wein Wiener Wiener Gemischter Satz

Alice Waters Anna Sacher Berta Zuckerkandl Bruno Kreisky Charles Boer Charlie Chaplin Charlotte Knobloch Clara and Gigi Padovani Claude Lanzmann Claudia Roden Edda Servi Machlin Eduard Sacher Elisabeth of Austria (empress) Francis-Joseph I (Emperor) Frank Gehry Franz Joseph (emperor) Franz Sacher Freud's childhood Friedrich Torberg George Tabori Gil Marks Giovanni Comisso Hannibal Hayim Bialik Heinrich Heine (poet) Heinz Reitbauer Heinz-Dieter Phol Heston Blumenthal Ingrid Haslinger Israel Friedmann (Czortkower Rebbe) J. Kenji López-Alt James Hillman Jeffrey Yoskowitz Jim Lahey Joan Nathan Johannes Theodat John Cooper Judy Rodgers Karl Lueger Katherina Prato Ken Lum Kurt Gutenbrunner Lavie Tidhar Leschanz (the Viennese chocolate king) Liz Alpern Marcel Proust Mark Bittman Martha Bernays Martin Parr Marx Brothers Mel Brooks Michael Solomonov Nathan Myhrvold Nigel Slater Nostradamus Or Zarua Orazio Gentileschi Paul Bocuse Paul Gauguin Paula Fichtl Peter Grunauer Rachel Raj Rick Rodgers Riza néni Roland Barthes Roman Polanski Ruth Beckermann Sandor Katz Sebestyén Fiumei Sigmund Freud Sisi Sophia Loren Thomas Bernhard Thomas Keller Uri Scheft Wolfgang Puck Yoko Ono Yotam Ottolenghi

1980s animal rights aphrodisiac articiochi Bacchus bookworm breastfeeding cannibalism dunking eat the rich eating with hands fathers cooking feminist food Freudian food gold Hungary Italian food Italy nose Oedipus Complex orientalism phallic food phallic symbol Proustian madeleine raw Rome Rufus T. Firefly slow food smell taboo Transylvania Treviso unconscious urban vineyards Vampires vegan veganism vegetarian vegetarianism Virgo Lactans virility Ying-Yang

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