FOOD AND CULTURE
Middle East, North Africa, and West Asia
 

Abdollahi P; Mann T (2001) Eating Disorder Symptoms and Body Image Concerns in Iran: Comparisons between Iranian Women in Iran and in America. Internation Journal of Eating Disorders. 30:259-268 [Middle East; North America; Iran; Iranian Americans].

Al-Kanhal MA; Bani IA (1995) Food Habits During Pregnancy among Saudi Women. International Journal of Vitamin and Nutrition Research. 65:206-210 [maternal nutrition; Middle East; Saudi Arabia].

"Traditional Bread" (Baking on hot stones among Bedouins of Egypt; © vera bogaerts)Bahloul J (1989) From a Muslim Banquet to a Jewish Seder: Foodways and Ethnicity among North African Jews. in MR Cohen; AL Udovitch (eds) Jews among Arabs: Contacts and Boundaries. Darwin, pp. 85-96 [social relations; ethnic food habits; North Africa].

Batmangliji N (2000) New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies. Mage [foodways; cookery; Middle East; Iran].

Buitelaar M (1993) Fasting and Feasting in Morocco: Women's Participation in Ramadan. Berg [religious fast; feast; Islam; Muslim; North Africa; Morocco].

Feeley-Harnik G (1994) The Lord's Table: The Meaning of Food in Early Judaism and Christianity [history; symbols; religion (Jewish, Christian); Middle East].

Garcia-Closas R (2006) Changes in Food Supply in Mediterranean Countries from 1961 to 2001. Public Health Nutrition. 9:53-60(8) [ dietary change; Mediterranean diet; food supply; nutrition; Europe; North Africa; Spain; Italy; France; Greece; Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia; Turkey].

Recommended -- click for detailsGarfield R (2000) Studies on Young Child Malnutrition in Iraq: Problems and Insights, 1990-1999. Nutrition Reviews. 58:269- [child nutrition; Middle East; Iraq].

Gelder GJ van (2000) God's Banquet: Food in Classical Arab Literature. Columbia University Press [history; symbol & meaning; Middle East].

Exellent Collection -- click for detailsGronow J (2003) Caviar with Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin's Russia [history; foodways; hunger; Soviet society; Europe; West Asia; Russia].

Harbottle L (1997) Taste and Embodiment: The Food Preferences of Iranians in Britain. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 175-185 [choice of foods; Europe; West Asia; Iran].

Harrison G; Zaghloul S; Galal O, et al. (1993) Breastfeeding and Weaning in a Poor Urban Neighborhood Recommended -- click for detailsin Cairo, Egypt: Maternal Beliefs and Perceptions. Social Science and Medicine. 36:1063-1069 [infant feeding; North Africa].

Recommended -- click for detailsHattox RS (1986) Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval near East. University of Washington Press [Middle East].

Heine P (2004) Food Culture in the Middle East, near East, and North Africa. Greenwood Press [foodways; food and religion; Arab Muslim foods; colonialism; globalization; modernization and change; West Asia].

Hundt GA; Forman MR (1993) Interfacing Anthropology and Epidemiology: The Bedouin Arab Infant Feeding Study. Social Science and Medicine. 36:957-964 [breastfeeding; Middle East].

Kanafuni A (1983) Aesthetics and Ritual in the United Arab Emirates: The Anthropology of Food and Personal Adornment among Arabian Women. American University Beirut [sensory preferences; taste; meaning; Middle East].

Kelhoffer JA (2004) Did John the Baptist Eat Like a Former Essene? Locust-Eating in the Ancient near East and at Qumran. Dead Sea Discoveries. 11:293-314 [history; food species; insects; Middle East].

Kuhnlein HV; Johns T (2003) Northwest African and Middle Eastern Food and Dietary Change of Indigenous Peoples. Asian Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 12:344-349 [traditional knowledge; urbanization; food systems; Africa; Middle East].

Lewis B (2002) In the Finger Zone. The New York Review of Books. XLIX:61-63 [history; methods of study; food habits; Middle East].

Recommended -- click for detailsMcGovern P; Fleming S; Katz, S (1995) The Origins and Ancient History of Wine. Gordon and Breach [collected essays; foodstuff; history; Middle East; Europe; Mediterranean].

Nevin H (2005) Sufi Cuisine. Saqi Books [religion; ritual; symbolic meaning; cookery; Middle East].

Packard DP; McWilliams M (1993) Cultural Foods Heritage of Middle Eastern Immigrants. Nutrition Today. 28:6-12 [food habits; North America; United States; immigrants].

Quandt SA; Ritenbaugh C (1986) Training Manual in Nutritional Anthropology. American Anthropological Association [nutritional anthropology; methods; regional surveys; East Africa; Middle East; Bangladesh; Amazonia; North America].

Essential Reference -- click for detailsRaviv Y (2003) Falafel: A National Icon Gastronomica, pp. 20-25 [foodstuff; symbolism; Middle East; Israel].

Roger D (2000) The Middle East and South Asia. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1140-1151 [history; Islam; Middle East; West Asia; South Asia; Egypt; Iran; Turkey; India].

Sakr AH (1975) Fasting in Islam. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 67:17-21 [fasting; Islam; Middle East; Muslims].

Schmitt E (1999) Cows, Sheep, and Date-Palms: Social Dimensions of Food in the Bible. in E Museo Nacional de Antropologia (ed) Alimentacion Y Cultura Actas Del Congreso Internacional. La Val de Onsera, pp. 1014-1028 [history; foodways; symbolics; Middle East].

Soler J (1973) The Semiotics of Food in the Bible. in R Forster; O Ranum (eds) Food and Drink in History. The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 126-138 [language; meaning; history; Middle East].

Staub S (1981) The near Eastern Restaurant: A Study of the Spatial Manifestation of the Folklore of Ethnicity. New York Folklore. 37:113-127 [foodways; folklore; restaurant; North America; Middle East].

Recommended -- click for detailsSukkary-Stolba S (1987) Food Classifications and the Diets of Young Children in Rural Egypt. Social Science and Medicine. 25:401-404 [food categories; infant & child nutrition; Middle East; Egypt].

Tapper R; Zubaida S (2001) A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East. Palgrave [collected essays; history; eating habits; cookery; social relations; gender; class; community; Middle East].

Recommended -- click for detailsTukan SK; Takuri HR (1998) The Use of Wild Edible Plants in the Jordanian Diet. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 49:225- [food use; vegetable foraging; Middle East; Jordan].

Wright CA (1999) A Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs, with More Than 500 Recipes. William Morrow [history; cookery; Europe; Middle East; North Africa].

Zubaida S; Tapper R (1994) Culinary Cultures of the Middle East. Tauris [collected essays; food habits; Middle East].

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