Recipes and Remembrances from an Eastern Mediterranean Kitchen
Subtitle: A Culinary Journey Through Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780292785359
Subjects: Middle Eastern Cookery; Cooking; Cooking / Wine; Jordan; Lebanon; National & regional cuisine; Syria; Cookery, Syrian; Cookery, Lebanese; Regional & Ethnic - Middle Eastern; Cookery, Mediterranean; Cookery, Middle Eastern; Middle East; Social life and customs
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.