Food culture

Residues in the Kitchen, or The Flavour of Home(sickness)

Cookbooks are more than instructions for recipes: they are also a collection of memories, journeys, and experiences. Erica Moukarzel describes the taste of home and how it travels.

History · Religious practices, ideas and experiences · Interreligious relations

Dietary Laws and the Birth of Islam

Foodways are an integral part of identity, and the proto-Muslim community was no exception. Based on Quranic proclamations on dietary laws, Mehdy Shaddel shows that among the early opponents of Islam there probably were “gentile” adherents of “Jewish” food laws.

With Our Own Hands: A Revolutionary Cookbook from the Pamir Mountains

That food culture can provide a kaleidoscopical insight into a little-studied part of the Muslim world is demonstrated by an exceptional cookbook with culinary stories originating from the Pamir Mountains.