Culinary cultures of the Middle East / edited by Sami Zubaida and Richard Tapper.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Zubaida, Sami, 1937-
• Tapper, Richard (Richard Lionel)
• University of London. Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Cooking, Middle Eastern--History.
• Food habits--Middle East--History.
• Manners and customs.
• Food habits.
• History.
• Cooking, Middle Eastern.
• Middle East--Social life and customs.
• Middle East.
• Middle East Region.

Physical Description:

xii, 302 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Contents:

• Food production in the Middle East / Tony Allan
• National, communal and global dimensions in Middle Eastern food cultures/ Sami Zubaida
• From the Caucasus to the Roof of the World / Bert Fragner
• Social reality and culinary fiction : the perspective of cookbooks from Iran and Central Asia / Bert Fragner
• The Meyhane or McDonald's? changes in eating habits and the evolution of fast food in Istanbul / Holly Chase
• The taste for layered bread among the nomadic Turks and the central Asian origins of baklava / Charles Perry
• Rice in the culinary cultures of the Middle East / Sami Zubaida
• Al-Kishk : the past and present of a complex culinary practice / Franc̦oise Aubaile-Sallenave
• The revival of traditional cooking in modern Arabic cookbooks / Peter Heine
• Jewish food in the Middle East / Claudia Roden
• Food and gender in a Yemeni community / Ianthe Maclagan
• You are what you cook : cuisine and class in Mecca / Mai Yamani
• Eating habits and cultural boundaries in Northern Iran / Christian Bromberger
• Beyond taste : the complements of colour and smell in the medieval Arab culinary tradition / Manuela Marin
• Blood, wine and water : social and symbolic aspects of drinks and drinking in the Islamic Middle East / Richard Tapper
• Of leaven foods : Ramadan in Morocco / Abdelhai Diouri
• Food as a semiotic code in Arabic literature / Sabry Hafez.

Notes:

• "In association with Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London."
• "Based on a conference organized by the Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies ... in April 1992"--Pref.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-293) and index.

ISBN:

• 1860640354
• 9781860640353

OCLC:

35150905