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Food Traditions

The food traditions this atlas records, grouped into three sub categories drawn from a food-history tripartite framework cross-checked against UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage domains: Food Production and Processing Traditions, Social and Ceremonial Dining Customs, and Dietary Law and Religious Food Practice. This atlas keeps only the culinary and cultural practice of a dietary law tradition; the doctrinal reasoning behind a religious dietary law such as kosher or halal practice stays Divinity's own entity, linked here rather than restated.

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Era of EmergenceSourced to the subject's own account
12,000 BCE 1
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1. Food Preservation (Wikipedia)
WikipediaFood preservation, Curing section, earliest drying practice (food tradition section)
Quote, Food preservation, Curing section, earliest drying practice (food tradition section)
The earliest form of curing is drying, which has been in use since ancient times, the earliest known practice dates back to 12,000 B.C. by inhabitants of the modern Asian and Middle Eastern regions.
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