Description

• Title:
  Flavorings in Context: Spices and Herbs in Medieval Near East
• Creator:
  Lewicka, Paulina B.
• Description:
  Throughout history, the approach towards imported spices varied from culture to culture. In medieval and early post-medieval Europe, where spices became an exotic object of temporary desire, they were often used unskillfully and in a haphazard manner. In the Ottoman Constantinople, unlike in Europe, it was the moderate use of spices, and not overdosing them, that became a manifestation of status. As deliberate paragons of refinement, the Ottomans depreciated what they considered uncivilized ways of their Arab provincial population, heavily seasoned diet included. Indeed, to a foreign observer, the Arabic-Islamic cookery might have appeared irrationally overseasoned. But the way the medieval Arab urbanites used spices was not a result of their surrender to changeable vogue, or the need to show off.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl
• Date:
  2014.02.05;
  2011
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN
• Subject:
  Near East, spices, herbs
• Identifier:
  0080-3545;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3408
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  image