Recipes and Remembrances from an Eastern Mediterranean Kitchen
Subtitle: A Culinary Journey through Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan
Edition: 2 Revised edition
Publisher: The Siamanto Press
Published: April 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780970971685
Subjects: Social life and customs; Courses & Dishes - General; Regional & Ethnic - Mediterranean; Cooking / Wine; Cooking; Regional & Ethnic - Middle Eastern; Cookery, Lebanese; Cookery, Syrian; History; Cookery, Jordanian; Cookery, Mediterranean; Cookery, Middle Eastern; Middle East
First sentence: Archaeologists have discovered that agriculture was first practiced by the ancestors of the Egyptians along the Nile River in Nubia as early as 12,000 B.C. Around 8000 B.C. people began to cultivate crops and domesticate animals in northern Iraq, Anatolia, and several locations in Greater Syria.