Author Description

Should it be olives or butter?: consuming fatty titbits in the early modern Ottoman empire / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Simits for the sultan, cloves for the mynah birds: records of food distribution in the Saray / Hedda Reindl-Kiel -- The cuisine of Istanbul between East and West during the 19th century / Ozge Samanci -- Turkish flavours in the Transylvanian cuisine (17th-19th centuries) / Margareta Aslan -- Exotic brew?: coffee and tea in 18th-century Moldavia and Wallachia / Olivia Senciuc -- Kitchen gardens and festive meals in Transylvania (16th-17th centuries) / Kinga S. Tudos -- Food and culinary practices in 17th-century Moldavia: tastes, techniques, choices / Maria Magdalena Szekely -- The "emperor's pantry": food, fasting and feasting in Wallachia (17th-18th centuries) / Violeta Barbu -- Food supply and distribution in early modern Transylvania (1541-1640): the case of Cluj / Eniko Rusz-Fogarasi -- Spices and exotic foods in 17th-century Transylvania: the customs accounts of Sibiu / Maria Pakucs-Willcocks -- The food trade in 18th-century Wallachia between daily subsistence and luxury / Gheorghe Lazar -- Two South-East European manuscript recipe collections in their 17th-century historical context / Castilia Manea-Grgin -- From Istanbul to Sarajevo via Belgrade: a Bulgarian cookbook of 1874 / Stefan Detchev -- "It is in truth an island": impressions of food and hospitality in 19th-century Transylvania / Andrew Dalby -- "The taste of others": travellers and locals share food in the Romanian principalities (19th century) / Angela Jianu -- Voyages, space, words: identity and representations of food in 19th-century Macedonia / Anna Matthaiou -- Jewish tavern-keepers and the myth of the poisoned drinks: legends and stereotypes in Romanian and other East-European cultures (17th-19th centuries) / Andrei Oisteanu