Jordan D. Rosenblum is Associate Professor and Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on the literature, culture, and history of the Rabbinic movement. He is the author of Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism (Cambridge, 2010) and the co-editor of Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World (2014). He is also the editor for Ancient Judaism at Currents in Biblical Research.
'I would not hesitate to recommend [this book] for introductory courses in Jewish studies. It would probably also prove valuable in the education of lay Jewish audiences, whose hunger for knowledge about Jewish food culture often seems insatiable.' Joshua Garroway, H-Net Reviews