[Sca-cooks] Period Street Food

[Ursula Georges]

On 5/16/2011 3:36 PM, sca-cooks-request at lists.ansteorra.org wrote:
> In _A Mediterranean Society, Vol 1._ S.D. Goitein discusses how most
> urban dining in Cairo during the Middle Ages (specifically the Abbasid
> and Fatimid periods) was "take out" food, since people didn't keep
> kitchens in the urban living spaces during this period. Fresh fruit
> would be fabulous, especially melons. This is all around p 110-30.

Late-period Istanbul had a similar system.  If you look at lists of 
guilds, there are lots of people specializing in making a specific food. 
  Helva-makers (the sweet) and tripe-soup-sellers spring to mind.

Ursula Georges.