Florence Greenberg's Cookery Book 2nd Edition 1949 with Dustcover VERY Rare

  

This book was reprinted in multiple editions. Few of the 2nd edition exist, and even fewer with the dustcover in a perfect condition. If you are British, over the age of 40 and have never heard of Florence Greenberg's Jewish Cookery, it's safe to assume you were not brought up in a Jewish household. Greenberg, cookery writer for The Jewish Chronicle between 1920 and 1962, was the Delia Smith of the Anglo-Jewish community.

Born Florence Oppenheimer in 1883, the fourth of eight children, Greenberg was the daughter of a wealthy Dutch meat importer who moved to Britain with his large family in the late 19th century. Following her education, Greenberg helped her mother to run the family home. But she longed to be a nurse and eventually, aged 29, persuaded her father to let her train, despite his misgivings about women nursing men. Once home, she married the editor of The Jewish Chronicle, Leopold Greenberg, and began a second career as a cookery writer for the paper. In 1934 she wrote The Jewish Chronicle Cookery Book and during the second world war the Ministry of Food recruited her to advise Jewish women on how to eke out their rations. By 1947 her profile was high enough for her to produce Jewish Cookery in her own name.