[Sca-cooks] 2016 Silly Season Starts

[Susan Lin]

Yup, that's one of the problems.  There are a lot of choices.  I am Jewish
and I want to explore the Jewish influences and the Jews and Muslims lived
in peace for a long time.

Shoshanah

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote:

> It occurs to me to ask when this feast is set.  The Arab Moslems took the
> city in 637.  From roughly 962 to 1076, it was under the control of
> Byzantium.  Went to the Seljuk Turks, then wound up under the control of
> Mamluk Egypt with numerous incursions by various people who didn't hold the
> city long.  In 1516 it was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire.  From the
> 7th Century to the 17th Century it had a major trade relationship with the
> various dynasties of the Persian Empire.  Each of these represents a major
> influence on the cuisine of Aleppo.  Other influences are from Coptic
> Christians and Jews with a smattering of Armenians arriving around the time
> of the Crusades (greatly expanded in the early 20th Century).
>
> Bear
>
>
> I'm still wanting to do an event that is just a feast.
> I'd like to do a feast from Aleppo.
> No idea where to begin with the research.
> No idea on a time frame.
> Why Aleppo?  Well I have a modern cookbook that talks about how all the
> Jews have been driven from there and with all the death and destruction I'd
> like to know more of the past and try to bring some of that back to life if
> just for an evening.
> I don't have any books myself but might be able to get some from the CU
> Library.
> We're heading to Pennsic on Thursday so maybe I"ll check out books there.
>
> Shoshanah
>
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