[Sca-cooks] Period Street Food
Ursula Georges
ursula at tutelaries.net
Mon May 16 21:14:49 PDT 2011
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.
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