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 disciplin...

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.