Sephardic Dishes: The Moorish Legacy
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Origin
The Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 carried with them the most sophisticated culinary tradition in medieval Europe — the Moorish-Jewish-Christian synthesis of Al-Andalus. Their cooking in exile (primarily in the Ottoman Empire) continued to evolve over the following centuries while maintaining specific Iberian characteristics that distinguished it from both Ottoman Turkish cooking and the cooking of their new host countries.
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Description
Defining Sephardic dishes and their Spanish-Moorish origins.
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The Thread
—Spanish cooking (direct ancestor — the Sephardic tradition is a time capsule of medieval Spanish Jewish cooking), Ottoman cooking (the primary host culture — mutual influences documented), Moroccan Je
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