Margaret Boyle’s “Sabor Judío” Book Award Finalist

By Bowdoin News

Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Margaret Boyle’s Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook (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.

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The award follows a flurry of media attention in December, when Boyle’s book was mentioned in the Boston Globe, Down East, Edible Boston, and the Jewish Journal.

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.

Read more about Sabor Judío here and more about the 74th National Jewish Book Awards here.