Author: Waines D.

Source: World Archaeology, Volume 34, Number 3, 3 February 2003 , pp. 571-580(10)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

The discussion of luxury food in medieval Islamic societies is based on data drawn from culinary and dietetic texts produced during the period from the tenth to fourteenth centuries. The sources reflect more specifically the food concerns of an urban leisure class rather than those of the ruler's court circles. Characteristics of the urban high cuisine are described as well as the parallel interest in other forms of nourishment, such as 'home remedies' described in both types of source material and reflecting the relatively self-contained nature of the urban bourgeois household.

Keywords: Luxury foods; medieval Islam; culinary-dietetic texts

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0043824021000026521

Affiliations: 1: Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YG, UK

Publication date: 2003-02-03

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