{"product_id":"bountiful-empire-priscilla-mary-isin-9781836390015","title":"Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis meticulously researched, beautiful volume offers fresh and lively insight into an empire and cuisine that until recent decades has been too narrowly viewed through orientalist spectacles.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history--and one of the most culinarily inclined. In this powerful and complex concoction of politics, culture, and cuisine, the production and consumption of food reflected the lives of the empire's citizens from sultans to soldiers. Food bound people of different classes and backgrounds together, defining identity and serving symbolic functions in the social, religious, political, and military spheres. In \u003ci\u003eBountiful Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, Priscilla Mary Işın examines the changing meanings of the Ottoman Empire's foodways as they evolved over more than five centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Işın begins with the essential ingredients of this fascinating history, examining the earlier culinary traditions in which Ottoman cuisine was rooted, such as those of the Central Asian Turks, Abbasids, Seljuks, and Byzantines. She goes on to explore the diverse aspects of this rich culinary culture, including etiquette, cooks, restaurants, military food, food laws, and food trade. The book draws on everything from archival documents to poetry and features more than one hundred delectable illustrations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Priscilla Mary Isin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1836390017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836390015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Reaktion Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Priscilla Mary Isin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465883603199,"sku":"9781836390015","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_db506316-2921-479b-aabe-d99a56ad200e.jpg?v=1736347565","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bountiful-empire-priscilla-mary-isin-9781836390015","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}