Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize «us» and «them» through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. David M. Freidenreich analyzes the significance of food to religious formation, elucidating the ways ancient and medieval scholars use food restrictions to think about the «other.» Freidenreich illuminates the subtly different ways Jews, Christians, and Muslims perceive...
