SC - Re: SC dried squid

[david friedman]

At 8:17 PM -0700 9/19/00, lilinah at EARTHLINK.NET wrote:

>The Near East is not just one big expanse of well-stocked 
>sophisticated urban environment. There are plenty of harsh dry 
>environments, too, with limited availability of foodstuffs. I 
>realize i have no documentation, I can only argue that it is 
>possible.


I've just been reading two books (_God's Banquet_, which is about 
food in classical Arabic literature, and a book on life under the 
Abbasids, with a chapter on food) that have lots of period references 
to food. One thing that is pretty clear is that the bedouin were 
regarded as eating primitive and gross things--one of the more common 
insults is that they ate lizards. I don't remember any references to 
dried meat, however.
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