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Perfect Potato Latkes: Yiddish vs. Hebrew & Schmaltz vs. Oil (Recipe) #Erdäpfelpuffer #Rösti
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Perfect Potato Latkes: Yiddish vs. Hebrew & Schmaltz vs. Oil (Recipe) #Erdäpfelpuffer #Rösti #ContemporaryVienneseRecipe

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Nino Shaye Weiss / 3 Comments

Eight days of intensive testing have yielded this authoritative latke story and recipe. Potato pancakes and hash browns are eaten all over the world. Going by t...

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.

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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
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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
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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
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