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Tag: #Pastoral Foodways

Browse our collection of food history articles exploring the legacy, heritage, and stories behind Pastoral Foodways.

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White labneh swirled in a shallow bowl with olive oil zaatar and flatbread
ingredients

Labneh

How fermentation, cloth draining, olive oil, seasonal milk, and household knowledge created a thick dairy food across the Levant and beyond

Levant and wider Eastern Mediterranean and West Asian dairy traditions7 min read
Frothy white ayran in a copper cup beside yogurt salt and flatbread
drinks

Ayran

How diluted cultured milk became a cooling companion to bread, meat, travel, urban restaurants, and national drink culture

Anatolia and wider Turkic, West Asian, and Balkan dairy cultures7 min read