DN
Dr. Nick Posegay
@nposegay.bsky.social
Itinerant scholar, mildly associated w/Cambridge University Library | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | Manuscript culture, interfaith history | he/him | opinions my own
Pre-order my new book, 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah', here:
linktr.ee/nposegay
308 followers316 following157 posts
This is a shopping list for meals during the Jewish festival of Shavuot. Its author was Solomon ben Elijah, a clerk at the Rabbinical Court in Cairo in the 13th century. Items include chickens, green lemons, eggplants, and molokhiyya, a jute-based stew still made in Egypt today. #judaism#manuscript
Looking at my jute rug & wondering what it would taste like stewed. 🤔
Interesting that it includes chicken. I don’t know when/where the custom of eating dairy on Shavuot arose
DN
Dr. Nick Posegay
@nposegay.bsky.social
Itinerant scholar, mildly associated w/Cambridge University Library | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | Manuscript culture, interfaith history | he/him | opinions my own
Pre-order my new book, 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah', here:
linktr.ee/nposegay
308 followers316 following157 posts