Eating in Israel

Claudia Prieto Piastro is an Anthropologist and the Program Element Leader for Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education at Brunel University London Pathway College, UK. Her research focuses on everyday nationalism, creolisation, and the role of food in the construction of national identity as well as in immigration, food culture, and religious identities.

• Section 1: The Invention of Israeli Food.- 1. The Invention of Israeli Food.- 2. Eating as an Israeli.- 3. Between Tel Aviv and the Kibbutz: Rural and Urban Diets.- Section 2. The Battle for Israeli food.- 4.  A Kosher Nation?.- 5. How Shabbat has kept Israel: From the Private to the National.- 6. “They tried to kill us; we survived, let’s eat”: Food and rituals in the Israeli household.- 7. They might be our enemies, but they sure know how to cook: Palestinian Food in Israel.- 8. Conclusions: Is there such a thing as Arab Jewish Food?