TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anny Gaul
AU  - Graham Auman Pitts
AU  - Vicki Valosik
TI  - Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean
SN  - 9781477324578
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Cooking
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - Cuisine
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Food
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index
N2  - "Melding the rural and the urban with the local, regional, and global, Levantine cuisine is a mélange of ingredients, recipes, and modes of consumption rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean. Making Levantine Cuisine provides much-needed scholarly attention to the region's culinary cultures while teasing apart the tangled histories and knotted migrations of food. Akin to the region itself, the culinary repertoires that comprise Levantine cuisine endure and transform--are unified but not uniform. This book delves into the production and circulation of sugar, olive oil, and pistachios; examines the social origins of kibbe, Adana kebab, shakshuka, falafel, and shawarma; and offers a sprinkling of family recipes along the way. The histories of these ingredients and dishes, now so emblematic of the Levant, reveal the processes that codified them as national foods, the faulty binaries of Arab or Jewish and traditional or modern, and the global nature of foodways. Making Levantine Cuisine draws from personal archives and public memory to illustrate the diverse past and persistent cultural unity of a politically divided region"--
ER  -