Ottoman Foodways

Imperial

An imperial food system, not a national one: palace kitchens and their registers, provincial and military food, caravan and market food, mosque and waqf kitchens, coffeehouses, and the sweets, breads, rice and vegetable dishes that travelled the whole empire. Its inheritors include the Balkans, the Levant, Egypt, North Africa and the Caucasus as much as Turkey.

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  • Ottoman foodways is a historical imperial system, not a national cuisine. Its inheritors include Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, North Macedonia, the Levant, Egypt, North Africa and the Caucasus. This dataset never assigns a shared Ottoman-period dish to one modern nation. documented

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