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    Greetings, I am Nino Shaye Weiss, an unbridled foodnik kibbitzing (aka blogging) from Vienna, a place steeped in history and culture. The city of music and dreams, once loved and hated by Sigmund Freud, has been home to many celebrated Jewish figures, including Theodor Herzl, Gustav Mahler, Viktor Frankl, Martin Buber, Stefan Zweig, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Arnold Schoenberg, and Erich von Stroheim, among others. In my blog, I endeavor to pay tribute to these great figures as well as to the anonymous Jew of pre-Shoah Jewish Vienna by delving into memory's kitchen and celebrating their once-rich and diverse cuisine, now lost forever. From Italian and Hungarian influences to Bohemian and Galician, I explore the eclectic flavors and unique stories of this previously vibrant culinary tradition, often with a Freudian twist. Join me in my virtual kitchen as I offer a culinary armchair therapy for a fictional restaurant, and discover the delicious world of Jewish Viennese food…

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    A History of the World (1981 movie) Baking at the 20th Century Café:Iconic European Desserts from Linzer Torte to Honey Cake Baking: From my Home to Yours 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 Falstaff 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) Lilith (magazine) madeleine of Proust Minhag Yisrueil Toireh He (The Custom of Israel is Torah) Modernist Cuisine Moses and Monotheism Neue Cuisine - The Elegant Tastes of Vienna Plenty More Rest on the Flight into Egypt (painting) Serious Eats Sissi So kocht man in Wien! 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 The Viennese Cuisine before Hitler — 'One Cuisine in the Use of Two Nations' Viennese Cooking (cookbook) Wittgenstein's nephew Zahav - A World of Israeli Cooking Zu Tisch bei Sigmund Freud Zuni Café Cookbook
    apple strudel artichokes confit ayva tatlisi Baba Backhendl barches beef stew beef tartare Berliner boiled beef bomboloni bread breakfast broth bulkos bundt cake cake carciofi alla giudia carciofi alla romana chasseneh fish (wedding fish) cheese latkes cheesecake chicken soup chocolate glaze cholent chrain (horseradish) cotogne in giulebbe Crostata 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 Gugelhupf Gulasch gulyás hallah hamantasch hamantaschen hamantascherln hamantash hamantashen hamin hash brown hasidic challah Hausmeisterschnitzel jelly doughnuts Kaiserschmarren Kaiserschmarrn kalacs Kartoffelpuffer kneidlach kogel-mogel Krautfleckerln Kugelhopf latke levivot Linzer cookies Linzer dough Linzer eyes Linzer torte Malakoff Torte mandelbrodt Marble cake Marmorgugelhupf matzo ball soup matzo balls matzo brei Oedipus Pie oeuf mollet pancake Panettone paprikás plum tart poached beef poached quince pontchikes pörkölt potato kugel potato pancake powidl raw meat red chrain (sweet beet horseradish relish) Rindsuppe ring cake ritschert roast chicken röster Rösti
    blowtorch bread knife cast-iron skillet champagne coupe Champagne saucer dutch oven instant read thermometer Martini glass meat thermometer Nordic Ware piping bag Riess stand mixer Vacu Vin
    basic cooking technique beef stock braiding breaded caramelization cartouche challah shapes deep frying dehydrating in the refrigerator dry brining fermentation filling fried hard-boiled egg yolk jar Lattice no-knead bread Nouvelle Cuisine peeling garlic peeling soft boiled eggs poaching ragoût reverse-sear salting early sautée sifting flour simmered beef simmering soufflé sourdough bread sous-vide speedy no-knead bread stew strudel dough trussing
    agar-agar almond slivers anise seeds apple apricot apricot jam artichokes artificial sweetener 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 chestnut flour chicken chili chives chocolate cinnamon cloves coffee confectioners' sugar Cooked sauerkraut coriander seeds cranberry edible flowers egg egg whites eggs espresso farmer cheese farmer's market faux red currant jam fennel seeds filo fine herbs fish flour garlic gelatine ginger Gingerbread spices Granny Smith grape juice grapefruit grapes hazelnuts honey horse meat horseradish instant yeast iodine kabanos Kavalierspitz ketchup kolbász kosher salt ladyfingers lemon lemon zest Liebstöckl Maggikraut Luststock lime lokshen Lovage lox marjoram mascarpone Matjes herring matzo matzo (matzah) matzo meal meat mint noodles nutmeg nuts oil olive oil olives onion paprika
    18 (Chai חַי) anti-Semitism Assimilation balabatish Belz blessing for good smell blood-libel Bnei Brak borer (to select/sort) challah Chanukah Oy Chanukah culinary Judaism dairy Esther Fetor Judaicus fiddle Galicia Galitzianer gebrokt Gematria golden calf good omen haimish Haman Hanukkah Hasidic Hasidim Hassidim Hebrew Holocaust Italian Jews Jewish Budapest Jewish Culture Jewish rye Jewish star Jewish tradition Judith and Holofernes Kabbalah Kiddush kimmel Knobel Komemiyut matzo kosher chicken kosher food kosher meat kosher wine LeChayim Leviathan magen David Manischewitz manna Mattersdorf Megillah Moses North American Jews original sin Passover Pesach philo-Semitism Purim Rokeach Rosh Hashanah schund Secular Judaism Seder Seudah shlishit Shabbat Shabbos Shavuot Sheva Kehillos shlissel challah Shoa Siegmund Kornmehl (butcher) star of David Streit's sufganiyot Sukkot Tashlikh Tehilim 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 Carnuntum Centrope Chardonnay coffee house coffeehouse 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 Ringstrasse Roman Empire Romans 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 Vienna 1900 Vienna 79 (restaurant) Vienna panoramic view Vienna woods Vienna's smallest vineyard Viennese cuts of beef Viennese field blend wine
    Alfred Polgar Alice Urbach Alice Waters Amalie Freud Anna Sacher Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Berta Zuckerkandl Bruno Kreisky Charles Boer Charlie Chaplin Charlotte Knobloch Chasam Sofer Clara and Gigi Padovani Claude Lanzmann Claudia Roden Dorie Greenspan Edda Servi Machlin Edie Jarolim Eduard Sacher Elisabeth of Austria (empress) Francis-Joseph I (Emperor) Frank Gehry Franz Joseph (emperor) Franz Sacher Freud's childhood Friedrich Torberg George Tabori Getrude Berg Gil Marks Giovanni Comisso Hannibal Hayim Bialik Heinrich Heine (poet) Heinz Reitbauer Heinz-Dieter Phol Helen Rennie Heston Blumenthal Ingrid Haslinger Israel Friedmann (Czortkower Rebbe) J. Kenji López-Alt Jacob Frank 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 Marie-Antoinette Mark Bittman Martha Bernays Martin Parr Marx Brothers Mel Brooks Michael Solomonov Michelle Polzine Napoleon Nathan Myhrvold Nigel Slater Nostradamus Olga & Adolf Hess Or Zarua Orazio Gentileschi Oscar Teller Paul Bocuse Paul Gauguin Paula Fichtl Peter Grunauer Philip Blom Rachel Raj Rick Rodgers Riza néni Roland Barthes Roman Polanski Ruth Beckermann Sandor Katz Sebestyén Fiumei Shmuel Ehrenfeld Sigmund Freud Sisi Sophia Loren Susanne Belovari Thomas Bernhard Thomas Keller Tobias Müller Uri Scheft Wolfgang Puck Yoko Ono Yotam Ottolenghi
    1980s animal rights aphrodisiac articiochi Bacchus Blaufränkisch bookworm breastfeeding cannibalism Christmas dunking eat the rich eating with hands Ernst Triebaumer estate fathers cooking feminist food Fertility symbol Freudian food Gager estate gold Hafner estate Hungary Italian food Italy Kollwentz estate Krutzler estate Linz Markowitsch estate nose Oedipal triangle Oedipus Oedipus Complex orientalism phallic food phallic symbol Prieler estate Proustian madeleine raw Red wine René Pöckl estate Rome Rufus T. Firefly Schwarz estate slow food smell St. Laurent taboo Transylvania Treviso triangle unconscious urban vineyards Vampires vegan veganism vegetarian vegetarianism Virgo Lactans virility Vizhnitz Viznitz bakery Werner Achs estate wine estates winery Wohlmuth estate Ying-Yang Zweigelt

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