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Food and foodways of medieval Cairenes [electronic resource] : aspects of life in an Islamic metropolis of the eastern Mediterranean / by Paulina Lewicka

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Lewicka, Paulina B.
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
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xxii, 580 pages
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Cookery Books -- 2.Hisba Manuals -- 3.Chronicles and Annalistic Sources -- 4.Travelers' Accounts -- 5.Dietary and Medical Treatises -- 6.Works of Fiction and Adab -- 7.What the Delectable War is Really About: Re-reading the Curious Culinary Tale of the Mamluk Era -- pt. ONE ON FOOD -- ch. One The Cairene Menu: Genesis -- 1.Sources of Culinary Inspiration -- A.Local Tradition -- B.Extra-Egyptian Influences -- 2.High and Low Cooking: Exchange and Diffusion -- 3.Street Food Business -- A.Technical Preconditions -- B.Food Producers, their Wares, and Market Control -- 4.The Cairene Cook -- 5.Customers -- ch. Two The Cairene Menu: Ingredients, Products, and Preparations -- 1.Cereals -- A.Millet and Sorghum -- B.Barley -- C.Rice -- D.Wheat -- 2.Meat -- 3.Fowls and Eggs -- 4.Fish -- 5.Dairy Products -- 6.Vegetables and Legumes -- 7.Fruit -- 8.Nuts and Seeds -- 9.Flavorings and Other Food Additives -- A.Salt -- B.Sweetening Agents -- C.Souring Agents -- D.Oils and Fats -- E.Spices, Herbs, Fragrances -- F.Prepared Condiments -- Afterword -- pt. TWO ON EATING -- ch. Three The Place to Eat -- 1.Public Consumption -- 2.The Dining-Room -- ch. Four Sharing the Table -- 1.Note on the Arabic-Islamic Medieval Texts Related to the Etiquette of Eating -- 2.Routine Eating Practices -- A.The Common Table: Prerequisites, Conditions and Customs Related to the Idea of Eating -- 1.Hospitality and its Limits -- 2.The Host and the Guests---General Rules of Behavior -- 3.Times of Meals -- 4.The Object Called "Table" -- B.The Meal -- 1.Washing Hands -- 2.The Posture -- 3.Serving; Presentation and Tableware -- 4.Starting the Meal -- 5.Techniques of Eating -- 6.Behavior at the Table -- C.After the Meal -- 1.Licking the Vessel and Licking Fingers -- 2.Hamdalla -- 3.Washing Hands -- 4.Washing down the Food -- 5.Leaving -- pt. THREE ON BEVERAGES -- ch. Five Non-Alcoholic Beverages -- 1.Water -- 2.Ashriba: Syrupy "Drinks" -- 3.Fuqqa and Aqsima: Quasi-Alcoholic Drinks -- ch. Six Alcohol and Its Consumption in Medieval Cairo -- 1.Drinks of the Mamluks -- 2.Beers of Egyptians -- 3.Wine in Egypt -- 4.Time and Place for Wine Drinking -- 5.Prohibition -- Bibliography -- Primary Arabic Sources: Texts and Translations -- Non-Arabic Primary Sources: Texts and Translations -- Secondary Literature -- Dictionaries and Reference Works.
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ISBN
900419472X (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004194724 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004206465 (electronic book)
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AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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