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Author Jianu, Angela

Title Earthly Delights
Published Boston : BRILL, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (561 pages)
Series Balkan Studies Library
Balkan studies library.
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Notes on the Translation and Transliteration; Chronology; Map; Introduction; Part 1 Flavours, Tastes and Culinary Exchange: Food and Drink in the Ottoman World; Chapter 1 Should it be Olives or Butter? Consuming Fatty Titbits in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire; Chapter 2 Simits for the Sultan, Cloves for the Mynah Birds: Records of Food Distribution in the Saray; Chapter 3 The Cuisine of Istanbul between East and West during the 19th Century
Chapter 4Turkish Flavours in the Transylvanian Cuisine (17th-19th Centuries)Chapter 5 Exotic Brew? Coffee and Tea in 18th-Century Moldavia and Wallachia; Part 2 Ingredients, Kitchens and the Pleasures of the Table; Chapter 6 Kitchen Gardens and Festive Meals in Transylvania (16th-17th Centuries); Chapter 7Food and Culinary Practices in 17th-Century Moldavia: Tastes, Techniques, Choices; Chapter 8 The "Emperor's Pantry": Food, Fasting and Feasting in Wallachia (17th-18th Centuries); Part 3 Food and Cities: Supply, Mobility, Trade
Chapter 9 Food Supply and Distribution in Early Modern Transylvania (1541-1640): The Case of ClujChapter 10 Spices and Exotic Foods in 17th-Century Transylvania: The Customs Accounts of Sibiu; Chapter 11 The Food Trade in 18th-Century Wallachia between Daily Subsistence and Luxury; Part 4 Cooking between Tradition and Innovation: Food Recipes Old and New; Chapter 12 Two South-East European Manuscript Recipe Collections in their 17th-Century Historical Context; Chapter 13 From Istanbul to Sarajevo via Belgrade-A Bulgarian Cookbook of 1874; Part 5 Representations, Travellers' Tales, Myths
Chapter 14 "It is in Truth an Island": Impressions of Food and Hospitality in 19th-Century TransylvaniaChapter 15 "The Taste of Others": Travellers and Locals Share Food in the Romanian Principalities (19th Century); Chapter 16 Voyages, Space, Words: Identity and Representations of Food in 19th-Century Macedonia; Chapter 17 Jewish Tavern-Keepers and the Myth of the Poisoned Drinks: Legends and Stereotypes in Romanian and Other East-European Cultures (17th-19th Centuries); General Index
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Subject Food habits -- Balkan Peninsula -- History
Food habits -- Europe, Eastern -- History
Food habits -- Turkey -- History
Food habits
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Balkan Peninsula -- Social life and customs
Turkey -- Social life and customs
Europe, Eastern -- Social life and customs
Subject Balkan Peninsula
Eastern Europe
Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Barbu, Violeta
ISBN 9789004367548
9004367543