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Melding the rural and the urban with the local, regional, and global, Levantine cuisine is a mélange of ingredients, recipes, and modes of consumption rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean. Making Levantine Cuisine provides much-needed scholarly attention to the region’s culinary cultures while teasing apart the tangled histories and knotted migrations of food. Akin to the region itself, the culinary repertoires that comprise Levantine cuisine endure and transform—are unified but not uniform. This book delves into the production and circulation of sugar, olive oil, and pistachios; examines the social origins of kibbe, Adana kebab, shakshuka, falafel, and shawarma; and offers a sprinkling of family recipes along the way. The histories of these ingredients and dishes, now so emblematic of the Levant, reveal the processes that codified them as national foods, the faulty binaries of Arab or Jewish and traditional or modern, and the global nature of foodways. Making Levantine Cuisine draws from personal archives and public memory to illustrate the diverse past and persistent cultural unity of a politically divided region.

Cooking --- The Levant, Levantine, food history, foodways, food studies, global cuisine, Eastern Mediterranean, culinary tradition, culinary history, culinary nationalism.

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How did one dine with a shogun? Or make solid gold soup, sculpt with a fish, or turn seaweed into a symbol of happiness? In this fresh look at Japanese culinary history, Eric C. Rath delves into the writings of medieval and early modern Japanese chefs to answer these and other provocative questions, and to trace the development of Japanese cuisine from 1400 to 1868. Rath shows how medieval "fantasy food" rituals-where food was revered as symbol rather than consumed-were continued by early modern writers. The book offers the first extensive introduction to Japanese cookbooks, recipe collections, and gastronomic writings of the period and traces the origins of dishes like tempura, sushi, and sashimi while documenting Japanese cooking styles and dining customs.

Cooking, Japanese --- Food habits --- Food --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- 1400. --- 1868. --- anthropology. --- asian cultural history. --- asian foods. --- culinary history. --- early modern food. --- early modern japan. --- fantasy food. --- food historians. --- food lovers. --- food rituals. --- food symbolism. --- food. --- gastronomic writings. --- history and food. --- japanese chefs. --- japanese cookbooks. --- japanese cooking styles. --- japanese cuisine. --- japanese culinary history. --- japanese dining customs. --- japanese recipes. --- medieval japan. --- nonfiction account. --- sashimi. --- shogun. --- social history. --- sushi. --- tempura.

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In a world that sought to reduce Mexican immigrants to invisible labor, the Nayarit was a place where people could become visible once again, where they could speak out, claim space, and belong. In 1951, Doña Natalia Barraza opened the Nayarit, a Mexican restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles. With A Place at the Nayarit, historian Natalia Molina traces the life's work of her grandmother, remembered by all who knew her as Doña Natalia--a generous, reserved, and extraordinarily capable woman. Doña Natalia immigrated alone from Mexico to L.A., adopted two children, and ran a successful business. She also sponsored, housed, and employed dozens of other immigrants, encouraging them to lay claim to a city long characterized by anti-Latinx racism. Together, the employees and customers of the Nayarit maintained ties to their old homes while providing one another safety and support.   The Nayarit was much more than a popular eating spot: it was an urban anchor for a robust community, a gathering space where ethnic Mexican workers and customers connected with their patria chica (their "small country"). That meant connecting with distinctive tastes, with one another, and with the city they now called home. Through deep research and vivid storytelling, Molina follows restaurant workers from the kitchen and the front of the house across borders and through the decades. These people's stories illuminate the many facets of the immigrant experience: immigrants' complex networks of family and community and the small but essential pleasures of daily life, as well as cross-currents of gender and sexuality and pressures of racism and segregation. The Nayarit was a local landmark, popular with both Hollywood stars and restaurant workers from across the city and beloved for its fresh, traditionally prepared Mexican food. But as Molina argues, it was also, and most importantly, a place where ethnic Mexicans and other Latinx L.A. residents could step into the fullness of their lives, nourishing themselves and one another. A Place at the Nayarit is a stirring exploration of how racialized minorities create a sense of belonging. It will resonate with anyone who has felt like an outsider and had a special place where they felt like an insider.

Immigrants --- Mexican American neighborhoods --- Mexican Americans --- Restaurants --- Social life and customs. --- Social lifeand customs. --- Barraza, Natalia, --- Nayarit (Restaurant : Los Angeles, Calif.) --- Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) --- 1950s. --- 1960s. --- Los Angeles history. --- Mexican immigration. --- Southern California. --- agricultural labor. --- citizenship. --- culinary history. --- discrimination. --- family. --- food politics. --- gentrification. --- intergenerational. --- placemaking. --- post war. --- race. --- restaurant employees. --- segregation. --- undocumented.

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The food of Rome and its region, Lazio, is redolent of herbs, olive oil, ricotta, lamb, and pork. It is the food of ordinary, frugal people, yet it is a very modern cuisine in that it gives pride of place to the essential flavors of its ingredients. In this only English-language book to encompass the entire region, the award-winning author of Encyclopedia of Pasta, Oretta Zanini De Vita, offers a substantial and complex social history of Rome and Lazio through the story of its food. Including more than 250 authentic, easy-to-follow recipes, the author leads readers on an exhilarating journey from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century.

Cooking, Roman. --- Dinners and dining --- Cookery, Roman --- Roman cooking --- History. --- cookbook. --- cookbooks. --- cooking made easy. --- cooking. --- culinary history. --- culinary. --- customs. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- enthic foods. --- essential flavors. --- food and wine. --- food lovers. --- food prep. --- frugal people. --- herbs. --- historical. --- history of italian cooking. --- history. --- how to cook. --- italian cooking. --- italian food. --- italian history. --- kitchen setting. --- lamb. --- lazio. --- lively. --- modern cuisine. --- olive oil. --- ordinary people. --- page turner. --- pork. --- recipes. --- regional cooking. --- regional interest. --- retrospective. --- ricotta. --- rome. --- social history. --- social sciences. --- traditions.