Voices From the Field (2024-06-07)
We are pleased to share this new publication from team members on a collaborative project.
This is a book about and for the people, communities, and food of Manisa province, Türkiye. From the Bronze Age to the present, it is a story about the food traditions that individuals, especially women, chose to prioritise and therefore keep alive, sometimes for millennia. Yet, as food priorities shift in response to our rapidly changing world, more and more decision-making is required. Consequently, this is both a cookbook and a guidebook for those wishing to find balance in their own food priorities, as well as a permanent record of these recipes and activities.
SOFRA was published with the support of the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council grant “Negotiating the Modernity Crisis: Globalization, economic gain and the loss of traditional and sustainable food practices in Turkey” (AHRC AH/V000454/1), awarded to PI Erica Rowan, Royal Holloway University, London and co-PI Christina Luke, Koç University.
For more information and images, see the project website here: https://sofra.ku.edu.tr.