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Here is a beef tartare prepared as my son likes it, with plenty of capers, gherkins and a healthy dose of Tabasco.

Appetizers/Beef/Meat/My Vienna - Freud & Food

Beef/Steak Tartare: Sigmund Freud’s Breakfast, and Favorite Dish of Claude Lanzmann and Thomas Bernhard #cannibals #freudianbrunch

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Nino Shaya Weiss / 11 Comments

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...

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 cuisines and its eclectic influences — Italian, Hungarian, Bohemian, Galician and many more — with often a Freudian twist…

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A History of the World (1981 movie) 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 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 Baba Backhendl barches beef stew beef tartare Berliner boiled beef bomboloni bread breakfast bulkos bundt cake 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 Gugelhupf Gulasch gulyás hallah hamin hash brown Hausmeisterschnitzel jelly doughnuts Kaiserschmarren Kaiserschmarrn kalacs Kartoffelpuffer kogel-mogel Kugelhopf latke levivot Malakoff Torte mandelbrodt Marble cake Marmorgugelhupf 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 Sachertorte Salzburger Nockerl sauerkraut sautéed potatoes schnitzel scholet scrambled eggs shnitzel sholet short dough shtritsl soft boiled eggs soldiers sólet soufflé pancakes steak

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

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 almond slivers 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

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 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 Viennese vieneyard Viennese wine

Alice Waters Anna Sacher Berta Zuckerkandl Bruno Kreisky Charles Boer Charlie Chaplin Charlotte Knobloch Clara and Gigi Padovani Claude Lanzmann Claudia Roden Dorie Greenspan 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 Marie-Antoinette 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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