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Khat

Clarke Brooke

Clarke Brooke

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

Encyclopedia entry

...Khat (Catha edulis Forsk., Celastracae) is a flowering evergreen tree that grows in parts of eastern Africa and the southwestern highlands of Arabia. Its young leaves and tender stem tips, also called khat, are stimulating and produce...

Yemen and Oman

Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer

Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer

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Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia Volume 1 : Africa and the Middle East

© ABC-Clio Inc, 2011

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...Overview The Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of Yemen are on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Oman, about the size of Kansas, is a hereditary sultanate with an elected advisory...

Food and Morality in Yemen

Anne Meneley

Anne Meneley

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Food : Ethnographic Encounters

Berg, 2013

Book chapter

...I was sick and moaning after our first meal upon arriving in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a. I may have unwittingly taken a sip from the water glass set out on the table. It was not the food, but the water in which the food was washed or cooked...