A Different Mediterranean Cuisine

Libyan Jewish cuisine is in general a typical cuisine of the southern and eastern Mediterranean; indeed, a list of the spices typical of Libyan Jewish cooking – coriander, cumin, caraway, cinnamon, mastic, pepper, saffron, and garlic – corresponds to most of the spices used in a medieval Arab cookbook. Jewish cooking in Libya differed in important ways from the cooking of the Libyan Arab population, primarily because of the observance of the laws of Kashrut. It also…