pickFascinating overview of food in medieval Islamic world. The author discusses everything from cookbooks, regional variation, borrowing/incorporation of foods/traditions from across the known world, the impact of the discovery of the New World & introduction of foods such as tomatoes & potatoes (spoiler—they led to big changes), utensils, cooking pots, importance of aromatics etc…numerous medieval as well as contemporary recipes also included.
Starting another book about food…oddly enough (okay, perhaps not so oddly) my research is making me hungry! 😂
#HumbleHarvest Day 9: Bamboo stalks and #Hayride(s) seem to go together. Paired with delicious mexican burrito. Book was strongly recommended by my Kuwaiti doctoral student. 💕💕💕
#AutumnPlease! Day 26: I have a feeling wearing a #Mask could be a theme here with the main character struggling to find a sense of belonging while in-between cultures as a biracial individual - and not really fitting in with one (Kuwaiti) or the other (Filipino).
pickLuma Mufleh reads her own words in the audiobook edition of her memoir and her emotions come through in her voice. She loves Jordan, the country where she grew up, but knew she risked death there for being queer, so she applied for asylum in the USA while attending college. The book is quite different from the memoir of another queer Muslim activist, Lamya H, although I like both. #LGBTQ
I decided to make a blanket out of some of the tshirts I got while volunteering for the Edmonton Folk Music Festival.
#audiocrafting #litsycrafters
bailedA gay Yemeni living in San Francisco in the 1990s checks himself into a psychiatric clinic having lost too many friends and his lover to AIDS. In the meantime Satan is interviewing Death and the saints known as the Fourteen Holy Helpers about him.
I wanted to like this book and kept thinking it was on the verge of becoming something really good but a third of the way through I have to admit it's just not happening for me. DNF.
