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Product details
- ISBN 9781836390015
- Dimensions: 190 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2025
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The
Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history.
In this powerful and complex empire, the production and consumption of food
reflected the lives of people from sultans to soldiers. Food bound people of
different classes and backgrounds together, defining identity and serving
symbolic functions in the social, religious, political and military spheres.
Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine examines the food of the
Ottoman Empire as it changed and evolved over more than five centuries.
Starting with an overview of the earlier culinary traditions in which Ottoman cuisine was rooted, such as those of the Central Asian Turks, Abbasids, Seljuks and Byzantines, the book focuses on diverse aspects of this rich culinary culture, including etiquette, cooks, restaurants, military food, food laws and food trade. This meticulously researched account draws on more than six hundred primary and secondary sources, ranging from archive documents to poetry, and includes over one hundred illustrations. It is a fresh and lively insight into an empire that until recent decades has been sidelined or viewed through orientalist spectacles.
Starting with an overview of the earlier culinary traditions in which Ottoman cuisine was rooted, such as those of the Central Asian Turks, Abbasids, Seljuks and Byzantines, the book focuses on diverse aspects of this rich culinary culture, including etiquette, cooks, restaurants, military food, food laws and food trade. This meticulously researched account draws on more than six hundred primary and secondary sources, ranging from archive documents to poetry, and includes over one hundred illustrations. It is a fresh and lively insight into an empire that until recent decades has been sidelined or viewed through orientalist spectacles.
Priscilla
Mary Işın is a food historian based in Istanbul, Turkey. Her publications
include A King's Confectioner in the Orient (2003) and Sherbet and Spice
(2013), which traces the history of Turkish confectionery and desserts.
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