The Mizrahi (Eastern) Jewish communities — those of Persia, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Egypt — maintained distinct culinary traditions within the broader traditions of their host cultures. Iraqi Jewish cooking (the oldest continuous Jewish community in the world — the Babylonian exile of 586 BCE) and Persian Jewish cooking represent the longest uninterrupted Jewish culinary traditions in existence. Their cooking is simultaneously Persian/Iraqi/Syrian and distinctly Jewish — the specific dietary laws, the specific Shabbat and holiday preparations, and the specific spice combinations that distinguished Jewish cooking from the non-Jewish cooking of the same region.
Mizrahi Jewish culinary traditions — their distinctiveness and their connections.
JEWISH DIASPORA CULINARY TRADITIONS — DEEP EXTRACTION