Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond

‎Contents
‎Notes on Contributors
‎Introduction
‎Part 1. Food and Social Status
	‎Social Dining, Banqueting, and the Cultivation of a Coherent Social Identity (Abu Hussein)
	‎Eating Up (Saßmannshausen)
‎Part 2. Prohibitions and Prescriptions from Classical Islam to the Present
	‎Peeling Onions, Layer by Layer (Amin)
	‎Beyond Ḥalāl (Moukheiber)
	‎Molecular Halal (Tayob)
‎Part 3. Food, Gender, and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
	‎Food, Happiness, and the Egyptian Kitchen (1900–1952) (Gaul)
	‎Food, Body, Society (Junge)
‎Part 4. Intoxication: Wine and Hashish in Literary Sources and Beyond
	‎The Symbolism of Wine in Early Arabic Love Poetry (Dmitriev)
	‎Hashish and Food (Marino)
	‎The “Abominable Pig” and the “Mother of All Vices” (Dursteler)
‎Part 5. Abstention: Vegetarianism in the Mediterranean and Europe from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
	‎An Ontological Dispute in the Writings of Porphyry of Tyre (Ribeiro Martins)
	‎Missionary and Heretic (Blankinship)
	‎A Frugal Crescent (Hauser)
‎Part 6. Managing Scarcity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
	‎Some Eat to Remember, Some to Forget (Brand)
	‎Local Histories of International Food Aid Policies from the Interwar Period to the 1960s (Wilhelm)
‎Index