SCHIBBOLETH - the foodnik's armchair therapy

Hi, I’m an unbridled foodnik blogging from Vienna, the city of dreams and Sigmund Freud. I’m cooking up a therapy with recipes and stories from Viennese cuisine and its eclectic influences – Jewish, Italian, Hungarian, Bohemian… – with an armchair psychoanalytical twist.

Welcome to my food blog straight from Vienna’s Island of Shattered Glass (“Glasscherbeninsel” a.k.a. “Mazzesinsel”, Matzo Island). Post-Second World War Vienna is marked by the destruction and murder of its Jewish inhabitants and its intellectual, cultural and social life. The Viennese are still struggling to fully grasp the void created by this rupture of civilization.

Cooking soothes my anxieties. It is an easy, fun, inexpensive way to add meditation, health, and social connection to your daily routine. Cooking serves as therapy for my own lurking depression. Plus, eating good food benefits everyone, family and guests included!”

Not only is cooking my therapy, I’m deeply fascinated by the cultural – especially sociological and anthropological – aspects of food.

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