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THE BOOK OF

SCHMALTZ

ALSO BY MICHAEL RUHLMAN

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

Ruhlmans Twenty

Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking

A Return to Cooking (with Eric Ripert)

The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chefs Craft for Every Kitchen

Michael Symons Live to Cook (with Michael Symon)

Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide (with Thomas Keller)

Charcuterie (with Brian Polcyn)

Bouchon (with Thomas Keller, Jeffrey Cerciello, and Susan Heller)

The French Laundry Cookbook (with Thomas Keller and Susie Heller)

The Reach of a Chef: Professional Cooks in the Age of Celebrity

The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection

The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America

THE BOOK OF

SCHMALTZ

L O VE S O NG T O A F OR G O TTEN F AT

MICHAEL RUHLMAN

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DONNA TURNER RUHLMAN

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To Lois Waxman Baron and her forebears

INTRODUCTION

A Thread in a Great Tapestry

LOIS WHO?

How This Book Came to Be

HOW TO MAKE

SCHMALTZ

TRADITIONAL

RECIPES

CONTEMPORARY

RECIPES

APPENDIX:

CHICKEN STOCK

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

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SCHMALTZ

INTRODUCTION

A Thread in a

Great Tapestry

Theres nothing else like it, Lois

Baron lamented one afternoon at a

neighborhood gathering. Its a shame

were losing it.

It, uttered softly, almost apolo-

getically, was schmaltz.

Lois is a terrific cook and was look-

ing forward to all the cooking she

was planning as Rosh Hashanah and

Yom Kippur, the High Holy Days of

the Jewish year, approached. First on

her list was schmaltz, the rendered

chicken fat, cooked with onion, that

would flavor so many of her dishes.

Id longed to work with this ne-

glected, much-maligned, all-but-for-

gotten fat, and that remark catalyzed

the urge.

I have for years been a pro-fat pros-

elytizer in a fat-phobic land, singing

the glories of pig fat, working assidu-

ously to encourage America to make

sausage in the book Charcuterie , and

to dry-cure salami and prosciutto in

the book Salumi . And I rail against

Americas knee-jerk vilifying of fat

generally. Fat doesnt make us fat

eating too much makes us fat. Eating

THE BOOK OF SCHMALTZ

all that processed crap, and cleaning

our overfilled plates at chain restau-

rants, makes us fat. Lack of vigorous

daily exercise makes us fat.

The truth is, our bodies need fat.

Fat is stored energy. Fat allows our

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