"Food Fights: Sephardic Food and Identity in Medieval Spain"

Description

What was Jewish cuisine like in medieval Spain and what did Christians think it was like? In this paper I explore what foods were recommended by Sephardic authors as part of a healthy and spiritually rewarding lifestyle, as well as explore how Sephardic cuisine had a prominent place in the literary and cultural imagination of medieval Christian Spaniards, for whom Jewish food and foodways came to be associated with a host of misperceptions about Jews and Jewish life and belief.

Period	Feb 7 2018
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