About me
Eve Jochnowitz, PhD (cooking, language) was a fellow at the Frankel Institute ofAdvanced Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan and currently teaches Yiddish at the YIVO institute and the Workers Circle. She worked for several years as a cook and baker in New York and received her Ph.D. on Jewish culinary ethnography in the department of Performance Studies from New York University. She has lectured both in the United States and abroad on food in Jewish tradition, religion, and ritual as well as food in Yiddish performance and popular culture. The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook, (Fania Lewando’s Vegetarish-Dietisher Kokhbukh) translated, annotated, and adapted for the modern kitchen, was published in 2015. Dr. Jochnowitz is the chocolate lady.
