Skip to content
Jewish Viennese Food
Stories & Recipes from Jewish Vienna
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • pinterest
  • instagram
  • Home
  • Recipes
  • Best of Vienna
    • Vienna Bucket List
    • Coffeehouses: 20+1 Best
    • Pastry Shops: 11+1 Best
    • Jewish/Israeli/Kosher
    • Vegan & Vegetarian
    • Bakeries: 15 Best
    • Heuriger: The Best
    • Books & Movies: 100+
  • About
    • This Site
    • About Me
    • The Logo
    • Apparel
    • Newsletter
    • Contact Me
  • Subscribe
    • New posts to your inbox!

Tag: Galician Jewry

Sacher-Masoch Torte (100% Pure Chocolate and Redcurrant Pleasure)
Desserts & Pastries/My Vienna - 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)

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Nino Shaye Weiss / 0 Comment

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...

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.

Explore more: Read here

Taste Jewish History, Subscribe to New Posts Now!

anti-Semitism Ashkenazi Food Austrian Desserts Comfort Food Culinary History Cultural Commentary Dairy-Free Demel (pastry shop) eggs Food History garlic healthy vegan instant read thermometer Jewish Culture Jewish heritage Jewish Holiday Food Jewish Identity Joan Nathan Kurt Gutenbrunner meat Nazis olive oil parve Passover Pesach plant based potato Pre-Shoah Vienna Rosh Hashanah rum salt oil sugar free Schmaltz Shabbat Shabbos Sigmund Freud sos free sugar Traditional Recipe vegan vegetarian Viennese Coffeehouse Viennese Cuisine Viennese Pastry wfpb whole food plant based

Random Posts

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

    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 …Read More »
  • 1980s Grapefruit Brûlée & Paul Gauguin’s Caramelized Pamplemousse (Recipe) #SchönbrunnPalaceOrangery

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

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

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

    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 …Read More »
  • מצותינדזל (Matzo Island) Installation by Sebestyén Fiumei #Mazzesinsel

    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 »
  • 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)

    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 …Read More »
  • Best Roast Chicken Recipe: Simple, Juicy & Crispy (Recipe) #VienneseKnobelBrathendl

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

    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

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

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

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

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

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

    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". …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

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

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

    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 …Read More »

The Foodnik’s Apparel For The Contemporary Mensch

Mazzesinsel ("matzos island" Vienna's Jewish neighborhood)
Mazzesinsel ("matzos island" Vienna's Jewish neighborhood)

Blogroll

Centropa - Preserving Jewish memory...
Chef Steps
David Lebovitz
Deb Perelman's "Smitten Kitchen"
Der Standard: Essen & Trinken
Dorie Greenspann
Eater
Feed Me Bubbe (1926-2014)
Felicity Cloake
Food52
Freud's Butcher (by Edie Jarolim)
Freud Museum Vienna
Haaretz: Food
Isabel Frey's "Revolutionary Yiddish Music" (Vienna)
Jake Cohen's "Wake & Jake"
Jewish Currents
Jewish Food Experience
Jewish Food Society
Jewish Museum Vienna
Jewish Welcome Service Vienna
Joan Nathan
K. Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Le Fooding
Lilith: Independent, Jewish & Frankly Feminist
Mahlzeit! (Leo Baeck Institute)
Mark Bittman
Nigel Slater
Peace Now | שלום עכשיו
Romemu, Jewish Life, Elevated.
Rick Rodgers
Saveur
Serious Eats
Tablet Magazine: Food
The Amateur Gourmet (aka Adam Roberts)
The Food Dictator (aka Jonathan Hirshon)
The Forward: Food
The Guardian: Food & Drink
Vered Guttman's Israeli Cooking
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, (VWI)

Never miss a post!

Share if you care!

  • share 
  • share 
  • share 
  • share 
  • save 
  • share 
  • share 
  • share 
  • share 
  • RSS feed 
  • share 
  • email 
  • print 

Random Post

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

    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 »

Recipes

Archives

Search

  • facebook
  • twitter
  • pinterest
  • instagram
  • HOME
  • RECIPES
  • APPAREL
  • BOOKS
  • IMPRINT
  • PRIVACY POLICY
  • DISCLOSURE
  • COPYRIGHT
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT
  • NEWSLETTER
  • Cookie Policy (EU)
The contents of Jewish Viennese Food, including recipes and pictures, are the exclusive property of Nino Shaye Weiss, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. This site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.