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Sephardic Dishes: The Moorish Legacy

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.

Overview

Defining Sephardic dishes and their Spanish-Moorish origins.

Source

JEWISH DIASPORA CULINARY TRADITIONS — DEEP EXTRACTION

Cross-Cuisine Parallels

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