Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors is cookbook unlike any other. More than a collection of recipes, it is a culinary archive of love, loss, and legacy.

Each dish in the book was shared by a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and paired with deeply personal reflections: the scent of a mother’s soup simmering before Shabbat… the comfort of sweet kugel remembered during hunger… the joy of rebuilding tradition around a postwar kitchen table.

All proceeds from the book support ABMF’s flagship educational program, the Auschwitz Legacy Fellowship.

Purchase the book here.

The cookbook has received wide recognition, with coverage in over 50 publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Forbes. It was also highlighted on two podcasts, featured on CBS Mornings with Gayle King, and named to Saveur’s “Best Cookbooks of 2022” and Glamour’s “Best Hanukkah Gifts” lists.

“This affecting new cookbook includes mostly Eastern European dishes as well as first-person accounts of suffering and survival. (…) Preparing the dishes in this substantial new cookbook feels like paying homage to resilient survivors.” 

“Food as a way of preserving memory, recipes as a way of connecting generations are the raisons d’être of Honey Cake & Latkes. (…) Just as much, you’ll want to savor the stunning photographs of the foods and, more importantly, the stories of the survivors. “

“Rather than a sad postscript to genocide, the book is a celebration of the power of food told from the perspective of a population who, contrary to expectations, telegraphs survival, renewal and joy.”