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Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine (Priscilla Mary Işın) Vermont Kaukasis charts Olia’s exploration ofThe Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest lasting empires in historyand one of the most culinarily inclined. In this powerful and complex concoction of politics, culture, and cuisine, the production and consumption of food reflected the lives of the empires citizens from sultans to soldiers. Food bound people of different classes and backgrounds together, defining identity and serving symbolic functions in the social, religious, political,