[<i>Making Levantine Cuisine</i>] suggests that food and the fiery debates around it can shed light on histories of inequality and struggle in the region... By examining the food history, culture, and politics of the modern Levant, the pieces reveal a culinary history that is, as one contributor put it, 'simultaneously hidden and deliciously obvious.'

The Nation

A comprehensive and inviting account of Levantine Cuisine...As an inviting and accessible read for food scholars, ethnographers, graduate students, and home cooks, this edited volume engages readers to discuss method, theory, recipes, geography, and research in a new light. Whether discussing kebabs, pistachios, or hummus, the volume offers so much to think with, cook, and snack on.

Food Anthropology

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.
Les mer
From family staples to national dishes, Making Levantine Cuisine addresses the transnational histories and cultural nuances of the ingredients, recipes, and foodways that place the Levant onto an ever-shifting global culinary map.
Les mer
A Note on TransliterationPrefaceIntroduction: Making Levantine Cuisine (Anny Gaul and Graham Auman Pitts)Part I: Making Levantine Food Cultures1. When Did Kibbe Become Lebanese? The Social Origins of National Food Culture (Graham Auman Pitts and Michel Kabalan)2. Adana Kebabs and Antep Pistachios: Place, Displacement, and Cuisine of the Turkish South (Samuel Dolbee and Chris Gratien)3. The Transformation of Sugar in Syria: From Luxury to Everyday Commodity (Sara Pekow)4. Pistachios and Pomegranates: Vignettes from Aleppo (Essay and Recipe) (Antonio Tahhan)Part II: Revisiting Foodways in Israel-Palestine5. Palestinian Urban Food Venues as Contact Zones between Arabs and Jews during the British Mandate Period (Dafna Hirsch)6. The Companion to Every Bite: Palestinian Olive Oil in the Levant (Anne Meneley)7. Even in a Small Country Like Palestine, Cuisine Is Regional (Essay and Recipes) (Reem Kassis)Part III: Levantine Cuisine beyond Borders8. Embodying Levantine Cooking in East Amman, Jordan (Susan MacDougall)9. Shakshūka for All Seasons: Tunisian Jewish Foodways at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Noam Sienna)10. Unmaking Levantine Cuisine: The Levant, the Mediterranean, and the World (Harry Eli Kashdan)11. Fine Dining to Street Food: Egypt’s Restaurant Culture in Transition (Essay and Recipes) (Suzanne Zeidy)Conclusion: Writing Levantine Cuisine (Anny Gaul with poetry by Zeina Azzam)Further Reading and CookingContributorsIndex
Les mer
This is an admirable and timely collection addressing key topics at the interface of Middle Eastern and culinary studies. The scholarship is excellent; and recipes, reminiscences, and poetry add complementary modes of describing modern Levantine cuisine. It’s wonderful to have so many insights into the relations between culinary, political, and economic history of this fascinating and pivotal part of the world. There’s lots to love about this volume.  
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781477324578
Publisert
2022-01-04
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Texas Press
Vekt
513 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Biographical note

Anny Gaul is an assistant professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Graham Auman Pitts is a visiting professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Vicki Valosik is the multimedia and publications editor at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.