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oapen-20.500.12657-510582023-01-31T18:46:27Z Crossroads of Cuisine Buell, Paul David Oskenbay, Moldir de Pablo Moya, Montserrat Anderson, Eugene N. History Middle East bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history::HBJF1 Middle Eastern history Crossroads of Cuisine provides a history of foods, and foodways in terms of exchanges taking place in Central Asia and in surrounding areas such as China, Korea or Iran during the last 5000 years, stressing the manner in which East and West, West and East grew together through food. It provides a discussion of geographical foundations, and an interlocking historical and cultural overview going down to the present day, with a comparative country by country survey of foods and recipes. An ethnographic photo essay embracing all parts of the book binds it all together, and helps make topics discussed vivid and approachable. The book is important for explaining key relationships that have not always been made clear in past scholarship. 2021-10-16T05:33:18Z 2021-10-16T05:33:18Z 2020 book 9789004432109 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51058 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Brill Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004432109 105706 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004432109 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9789004432109 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Brill Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Crossroads of Cuisine provides a history of foods, and foodways in terms of exchanges taking place in Central Asia and in surrounding areas such as China, Korea or Iran during the last 5000 years, stressing the manner in which East and West, West and East grew together through food. It provides a discussion of geographical foundations, and an interlocking historical and cultural overview going down to the present day, with a comparative country by country survey of foods and recipes. An ethnographic photo essay embracing all parts of the book binds it all together, and helps make topics discussed vivid and approachable. The book is important for explaining key relationships that have not always been made clear in past scholarship.
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