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Since the 1990s, Turkey has started to develop an extensive interest in its Ottoman past. The view of the Ottomans as "backward" and "pre-modern" that once held sway has given way to a view that grasps the Ottoman past as "open," "tolerant," and "cosmopolitan." Food is one of th…

Tolerance is the foundation of a just society and is a necessary tool to equip students with to function successfully in the world's global community (Vogt, 1997). While tolerance is touted as a goal to teach on educational and government lists, little emphasis is placed on meth…

Globally over 3 billion people use solid fuel cookstoves to meet household energy demand. Cookstove emissions lead to household and ambient air pollution, with adverse health and climate impacts. To reduce these harmful impacts, alternative cookstove technologies have been devel…

This project aims to take the investigation of food in early modern drama, in itself a relatively new field, in a new direction. It does this by shifting the critical focus from food-based metaphors to food-based properties and food-producing cook characters. This shift reveals …