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Food and foodways of medieval Cairenes: aspects of life in an Islamic metropolis of the eastern Mediterranean

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ISBN	900419472X (hbk.)
ISBN	9789004194724 (hbk.)
Author	Lewicka, Paulina B.
Title	Food and foodways of medieval Cairenes : aspects of life in an Islamic metropolis of the eastern Mediterranean / by Paulina B. Lewicka
Publisher	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011
Physical desc.	xxi, 626 p. ; maps ; 25 cm.
Series	Islamic history and civilization Studies and texts 88
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references ([551]-580) and indexes.
Contents	Introductory essay: Medieval Cairo and its inhabitants -- Survey of the sources for the study of the medieval Cairene. Food culture -- Cookery books -- Ḥisbah manuals -- Chronicles and annalistic sources -- Travelers' accounts -- Dietary and medical treatises -- Works of fiction and adab -- What the Delectable war is really about: re-reading the curious culinary tale of the Mamluk era -- Pt. 1: On food. The Cairene menu: genesis -- Sources of culinary inspiration: local tradition; extra-Egyptian influences -- High and low cooking: exchange and diffusion -- Street food business: technical preconditions -- food producers, their wares, and market control -- The Cairene cook -- Customers -- The Cairene menu: ingredients, products, and preparations -- Cereals: millet and sorghum; barley; rice; wheat -- Meat -- Fowls and eggs -- Fish -- Dairy products -- Vegetables and legumes -- Fruit -- Nuts and seeds -- Flavorings and other food additives: salt; sweetening agents; souring agents; oils and fats; spices, herbs, fragrances; prepared condiments -- Afterword -- Pt. 2: On eating. The place to eat -- Public consumption -- The dining-room -- Sharing the table -- Note on the Arabic-Islamic medieval texts related to the etiquette of eating -- Routine eating practices -- The common table: prerequisites, conditions and customs related to the idea of eating: hospitality and its limits; the host and the guests: general rules of behavior; times of meals; the object called 'table' -- The meal: washing hands; the posture; serving: presentation and tableware; starting the meal; techniques of eating; behavior at the table -- After the meal: licking the vessel and licking the fingers; ḥamdalla; washing hands; washing down the food; leaving -- Pt. 3: On beverages -- Non-alcoholic beverages -- Water -- Ashriba: syrupy 'drinks' -- Fuqqāʿ and aqsimā: quasi-alcoholic drinks -- Alcohol and its consumption in medieval Cairo -- Drinks of the Mamluks -- Beers of Egyptians -- Wine in Egypt -- Time and place for wine drinking -- Prohibition.
Subject	Food habits -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History
	Food habits -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History
	Food habits -- Middle East -- History
	Food -- Social aspects
	Diet -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History
	Dinners and dining -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History
	Table etiquette -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History
	Islamic cooking
	Cooking, Middle Eastern
	Cairo (Egypt) Civilization
	Cairo (Egypt) -- History
	Egypt -- History -- 640-1250
	Islamic Empire -- Social life and customs

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