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Vegetarian Matzo Ball Soup: Vienna’s Ultimate Golden Homemade Roasted Garden Vegetable Broth & The Perfect 91 Matzoh Dumplings (Recipes) #קניידלעך #kneidlach #Matzeknödel

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Nino Shaya Weiss / 8 Comments

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 ...

Breakfast/Eggs/My Vienna - Freud & Food

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

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Nino Shaya Weiss / 11 Comments

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...

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, Erich von Stroheim 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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Vienna’s “Fächertorte”—Jewish Budapest’s “Flódni” Layer Cake in Disguise. #RachelRaj #Demel
“FÄCHERTORTE,” says the white-aproned waitress at Vienna's Demel Konditorei (German for pastry shop) from behind the magnificent display case of one of …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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Hamantascherln — Small Pockets, Viennese Style: Melt-In-The-Mouth Jewish Purim Cookies. The Whole Megillah! (Recipe) #PurimKekse #OzneiHaman #WienerTascherln #Hamantashen
This is an authentic, Old-Vienna recipe for the triangular cookies of the Jewish holiday Purim. Purim is something like a …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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
“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 »
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 »
Vegetarian Matzo Ball Soup: Vienna’s Ultimate Golden Homemade Roasted Garden Vegetable Broth & The Perfect 91 Matzoh Dumplings (Recipes) #קניידלעך #kneidlach #Matzeknödel
I confess to a long-standing affection for the matzoball, perhaps for its ease in swallowing whole. The small round form, …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 »
Freud and his Cholent: The Austrian Origins of the Jewish Bean Stew #VeganVersionInside #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 »
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 »
Red Wine: Austria’s Great Little Ones Tested — IMHO, With Some Jewish Considerations! #KosherWine #Siebengemeinden #ShevaKehillos
1934 in Vienna 73,6% of the wine trade was in Jewish hands. Today, Austrian wines are the best-kept secret of …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 »
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 »
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 »
“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 »
Linzer Torte & Cookies, Jewish Classics Straight from Vienna’s Pastry Shops and Coffeehouses! (Recipes) #JewishStar #AlfredPolgar #CrostataAustriaca
This nutty and crumbly cake, which is a tart, sweet, and world-famous showstopper, is one of the oldest around. It …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 »
Gugelhupf Bundt Cake(s): Vienna’s Classic Coffeehouse Pleasures According To Dorie Greenspan – The Jewish Connections – קוגלהוף #Kugelhopf #Kuglof #YomKippur
My favorite cake tin is, doubtless, the celebrated so-called “bundt,” or “Gugelhupf” in Vienna (pronounced “google hoopf”). The Gugelhupf bundt …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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »

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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 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 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 Hausmeisterschnitzel jelly doughnuts Kaiserschmarren Kaiserschmarrn kalacs Kartoffelpuffer kneidlach kogel-mogel 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 Sachertorte Salzburger Nockerl

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 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 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 chestnut flour chicken chili chives chocolate cinnamon cloves coffee 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 Lovage lox marjoram mascarpone Matjes herring matzo matzo (matzah) matzo meal meat mint nutmeg nuts oil olive oil olives onion paprika parasol mushroom parsley phyllo pastry plum

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 Esther Fetor Judaicus fiddle Galicia Galitzianer gebrokt Gematria golden calf good omen Haman Hanukkah Hasidim Hassidim Hebrew Holocaust Italian Jews Jewish Budapest Jewish rye Jewish star 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 Waters Anna Sacher 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 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 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 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 Werner Achs estate wine estates winery Wohlmuth estate Ying-Yang Zweigelt

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