Earthly delights : : economies and cultures of food in Ottoman and Danubian Europe, c. 1500-1900 / / edited by Angela Jianu, Violeta Barbu.

• TeilnehmendeR: Jianu, Angela.; Barbu, Violeta.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Balkan Studies Library 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (561 pages).

Earthly Delights brings together a number of substantial and original scholarly studies by international scholars currently working on the history of food in the Ottoman Empire and East-Central Europe. It offers new empirical research, as well as surveys of the state of scholarship in this discipline, with special emphasis on influences, continuities and discontinuities in the culinary cultures of the Ottoman Porte, the Balkans and East-Central Europe between the 17th and 19th centuries. Some contributions address economic aspects of food provision, the development and trans-national circulation of individual dishes, and the role of merchants, diplomats and travellers in the transmission of culinary trends. Others examine the role of food in the construction of national and regional identities in contact zones where local traditions merged or clashed with imperial (Ottoman, Habsburg) and West-European influences.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Notes on the Translation and Transliteration -- Chronology -- Map -- Introduction / Angela Jianu and Violeta Barbu -- Flavours, Tastes and Culinary Exchange: Food and Drink in the Ottoman World -- Should it be Olives or Butter? Consuming Fatty Titbits in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire* / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Simits for the Sultan, Cloves for the Mynah Birds: Records of Food Distribution in the Saray / Hedda Reindl-Kiel -- The Cuisine of Istanbul between East and West during the 19th Century / Özge Samancı -- Turkish Flavours in the Transylvanian Cuisine (17th-19th Centuries) / Margareta Aslan -- Exotic Brew? Coffee and Tea in 18th-Century Moldavia and Wallachia / Olivia Senciuc -- Ingredients, Kitchens and the Pleasures of the Table -- Kitchen Gardens and Festive Meals in Transylvania (16th-17th Centuries) / Kinga S. Tüdős -- Food and Culinary Practices in 17th-Century Moldavia: Tastes, Techniques, Choices / Maria Magdalena Székely -- The "Emperor's Pantry": Food, Fasting and Feasting in Wallachia (17th-18th Centuries) / Violeta Barbu -- Food and Cities: Supply, Mobility, Trade -- Food Supply and Distribution in Early Modern Transylvania (1541-1640): The Case of Cluj / Enikő Rüsz-Fogarasi -- Spices and Exotic Foods in 17th-Century Transylvania: The Customs Accounts of Sibiu* / Mária Pakucs-Willcocks -- The Food Trade in 18th-Century Wallachia between Daily Subsistence and Luxury / Gheorghe Lazăr -- Cooking between Tradition and Innovation: Food Recipes Old and New -- Two South-East European Manuscript Recipe Collections in their 17th-Century Historical Context / Castilia Manea-Grgin -- From Istanbul to Sarajevo via Belgrade-A Bulgarian Cookbook of 1874 / Stefan Detchev -- Representations, Travellers' Tales, Myths -- "It is in Truth an Island": Impressions of Food and Hospitality in 19th-Century Transylvania / Andrew Dalby -- "The Taste of Others": Travellers and Locals Share Food in the Romanian Principalities (19th Century) / Angela Jianu -- Voyages, Space, Words: Identity and Representations of Food in 19th-Century Macedonia* / Anna Matthaiou -- Jewish Tavern-Keepers and the Myth of the Poisoned Drinks: Legends and Stereotypes in Romanian and Other East-European Cultures (17th-19th Centuries)* / Andrei Oişteanu -- Back Matter -- General Index.