Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine by Isin, Priscilla Mary
Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine by Isin, Priscilla Mary

Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine

This meticulously researched, beautiful volume offers fresh and lively insight into an empire and cuisine that until...
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SKU: 9781836390015
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Author: Priscilla Mary Isin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine by Isin, Priscilla Mary

Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine

$103.54
Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine by Isin, Priscilla Mary

Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine

$103.54
Author: Priscilla Mary Isin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
This meticulously researched, beautiful volume offers fresh and lively insight into an empire and cuisine that until recent decades has been too narrowly viewed through orientalist spectacles.

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history--and one of the most culinarily inclined. In this powerful and complex concoction of politics, culture, and cuisine, the production and consumption of food reflected the lives of the empire's citizens from sultans to soldiers. Food bound people of different classes and backgrounds together, defining identity and serving symbolic functions in the social, religious, political, and military spheres. In Bountiful Empire, Priscilla Mary Işın examines the changing meanings of the Ottoman Empire's foodways as they evolved over more than five centuries.

Işın begins with the essential ingredients of this fascinating history, examining the earlier culinary traditions in which Ottoman cuisine was rooted, such as those of the Central Asian Turks, Abbasids, Seljuks, and Byzantines. She goes on to explore the diverse aspects of this rich culinary culture, including etiquette, cooks, restaurants, military food, food laws, and food trade. The book draws on everything from archival documents to poetry and features more than one hundred delectable illustrations.

Author: Priscilla Mary Isin
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 03/23/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781836390015

About the Author
Priscilla Mary Işın is a food historian. Her books include A King's Confectioner in the Orient, an annotated translation of Friedrich Unger's book on Ottoman confectionary originally published in German in 1838; and Sherbet and Spice.
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