Mackerel at Midnight

by Hofman, Ethel G.

• ISBN13: 9780940159938
• ISBN10: 0940159937
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-10
• Publisher: Camino Books Inc

Summary

Both memoir and cookbook, Mackerel at Midnight, brings the reader back to gentler times that exemplify how food can instilla lasting identity, and people of different religions and cultures can live together in peace.

Author Biography

Ethel G. Hofman is a syndicated food journalist, cookbook author, and a past president of the International Association of Culinary Professionals

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Note to the Reader	xi
Introduction	xiii
Our Ma	1	(8)
Describing her Lithuanian family living in the Gorbals
The tight-knit, Jewish community in Glasgow, Scotland
Pochapovsky to Greenwald: From Russia to Shetland	9	(6)
The travels of the Greenwald men from a Russian shtetl to the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland
Strangers and Foreigners	15	(18)
Settling into a strange, unfamiliar island life
Opening a shop and finding a bride
A New Beginning	33	(10)
Harry brings his Jewish bride from Glasgow to the Christian community of Shetland
``You Can Get it at Greenvald's''	43	(16)
My father's shop, selling everything from candy to condoms
Shetlanders: Lerwick's Characters	59	(8)
Jean, ``our Ma,'' becomes acquainted with Shetland attitudes through local people and neighbors
Life in the Lane	67	(12)
Living above the shop
Adapting to a different, difficult lifestyle
The War Years: 1939 to 1945	79	(12)
One Jewish family, coping with a threat of German occupation from Norway
Jewish troops stationed in Shetland, and their ``home from home'' at the Greenwald house
The Midnight Mackerel Supper	91	(20)
Holidays in Hamnavoe
Mackerel feasts at simmer dim, summer nights when one can read a newspaper outdoors at midnight
The House on Hayfield Road	111	(16)
Moving to a newly built house
Jean buys her own shop
An Island Passover	127	(12)
Jean organizes Seders for more than three hundred military Jewish men and women
Keepin' Cakes for Chanukah	139	(14)
Jean combines two cultures
Buttery, rich cakes for Chanukah and whisky fruitcakes for Christmas
Spreading Our Wings	153	(12)
Teaching on outlying islands of Yell and Unst
Leaving home for America
Epilogue	165	(8)
Glossary	173