The Culinary Crescent by Heine, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Half Title Title Copyright Contents Prologue No Pork, no Alcohol

Why no pork? Ritual slaughter The proscription against alcohol Blood Yet more rules Preferred dishes The culinary promises of Paradise Rules for fasting and meals for religious festivals Secular festivals Religious minorities in Islamic societies

A Thousand and One Saucepans – Cooking Among the High and Mighty

Hospitality The Umayyads The Abbasids The Ottomans The Safavids The Mughal emperors

Cookbooks and Kitchen Practices

Professional chefs Modern professional chefs Amateur cooks Cookbooks

Arab cuisine Ottoman cuisine Persian cuisine Mughal cuisine Modern cookbooks

Itinerant Ingredients – The Flow of Commodities to and from the East

From the Far East and the West to the Islamic world

Grains Sugar cane Citrus fruits Bananas Water melons Spinach Aubergines

From the Middle East to Europe

Alcohol Apricots Coffee Marzipan Saffron Sorbets

Tomatoes and Peppers – Western Influences on Middle Eastern Cooking

Shifts in international trade American plants in the cuisines of the East Potatoes Tomatoes Peppers/chillies Maize (Sweetcorn) Jerusalem artichokes Cacao Tea

Doner Kebabs and Falafels – Middle Eastern Cuisine in Europe

Doners and falafels Poultry Blancmange Rosewater Traces of Middle Eastern cuisine in British food The growth in popularity of Middle Eastern food in Britain Sweets

Old and New – Modern Middle Eastern Cuisine

Practical and technical innovations in households large and small Eating at table Modern preservation techniques Changes in gastronomy First restaurants Modern restaurants

Your Food – Our Food: The Role of Politics and Economics

Politics and economics Culinary identities Dolma in Iraq The dispute over hummus and falafel Chefs for Peace Other conflicts over the origins of foods New forms of gardening Halāl as an economic factor New halāl concepts Foodstuffs among strictly conservative Muslims in the diaspora

Conclusion Index of Recipes and Metric Conversions Glossary of Ingredients Timeline Bibliography