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Druze Foodways of Jabal al-Arab

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The Druze of AS-SUWAYDA and Jabal al-Arab — the volcanic highland southeast of Damascus, settled substantially from Mount Lebanon in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The foodway is the mountain’s: rain-fed WHEAT and burghul; APPLES, grapes and the terraced orchards; OLIVES and oil; lentil and chickpea; sheep and goat, and their dairy — labneh, KISHK, and the dried yogurt of the summer; MAKDOUS and the autumn preserving; and communal meals at which a great deal is cooked at once. ⚠ AND THE CAREFUL PART, WHICH THE SPEC INSISTS ON: this row records the food of a PLACE and a COMMUNITY, not dietary rules inferred from a religion. Druze religious practice is largely closed to outsiders and this system publishes no claim about it. Where a food tradition is documented it is named; nothing is deduced from doctrine.

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  • Druze community documented

Languages: North Levantine Arabic

What is recorded

  • The Druze of As-Suwayda and Jabal al-Arab were settled substantially from Mount Lebanon in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This system records the food of a place and a community and does not infer dietary rules from religion; Druze religious practice is largely closed to outsiders and no claim about it is published here. documented

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This foodway relates to

  • related to Lebanese Cuisine documented

    Jabal al-Arab was settled substantially from Mount Lebanon in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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