Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Margaret Boyle’s (University of North Carolina Press, 2024), coauthored by Amherst professor Ilan Stavans, was named a Jewish Book Award finalist for the Jane and Stuart Weitzman Family Award in the food writing and cookbooks category.
The award follows a flurry of media attention in December, when Boyle’s book was mentioned in the , , , and the .
The category winner is Jordan D. Rosenblum’s Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig (NYU Press, 2024); Boyle’s co-finalist is The Jewish Holiday Table (Artisan, 2024) by Naama Shefi and the Jewish Food Society.
The Jewish Book Council’s awards were announced January 22, 2025; the authors and their books will be honored in New York City at the 74th National Jewish Book Awards Celebration in March.
