[Sca-cooks] Middle Eastern Food

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Greetings,

I'm teaching a class on "Middle Eastern" food in about a month at our 
Kingdom A&S Tourney. It's a history and survey. I will discuss 
briefly the history of spices. I also want to cover some of the 
basics of historic Near and Middle Eastern food.

What individual ingredients do you think of when someone says "Middle 
Eastern"? What dishes?

What else would people want to know about historical Middle Eastern food?

Thanks for any input - this will help guide my research.

Anahita