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