dried lime
Cultural layer
The Oxford Companion to Food (Alan Davidson, 1999)
Feast: Food of the Islamic World (Anissa Helou, 2018)
Najmieh Batmanglij, A Taste of Persia: An Introduction to Persian Cooking (Mage Publishers, Washington, 2007)
Food of Life (Najmieh Batmanglij, 1986)
Route
PendingThe routes are written. They are not yet mapped.
This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.
1 of 409 entries carries a mapped route · nutmeg is the prototype
- Waypoints
Ordered places, each with its kind
- Coordinates
Real positions, with the gazetteer they came from
- Segments
From, to, and the mechanism that moved it
- Confidence
Documented, attributed or contested
- Summary
What the route argues, in a sentence
Names · co-equal, marked by how each one travelled
FoodwayPresent as a living food culture.
No names recorded.
Connections
6 bonds · 4 sourcedGheymeh and lamb stews.
Searched in Food of Life, 2011 edition, page 342, qeymeh, lamb or beef or chicken with four whole limu omani; page 338, qormeh sabzi with lamb.
Ghormeh sabzi.
Searched in Food of Life, 2011 edition, page 338, qormeh sabzi: six whole limu omani, pierced, with dried kidney beans and lamb.
Shorbat adas, the Gulf lentil soup, where the loomi is the point.
Read in Sarah al-Hamad's shorbat 'adas, AramcoWorld, 2024, reprinted from Cardamom and Lime, 2008: three dried limes pierced and fried with the onion, 'the secret ingredient', squeezed into the bowl at the table.
Gheymeh: the meat is turned in turmeric and the limu omani goes into the same pot.
Searched in Food of Life, 2011 edition, page 342, qeymeh: limu omani, turmeric and advieh with the meat in one pot.
Bonds are drawn from culinary literature and origin-tradition references, tiered by source. Origin means a reference from the place. Witness means the pairing is the place's own and the reference documenting it was written from outside.
The score is cultural weight: how central a pairing is in the tradition that documents it. It is not a prediction of how two materials behave in a formulation and not a measure of chemical affinity. The scale is ordinal, because centrality is a judgement rather than a measurement: 1.0 where the pair is the dish, 0.9 a fixed named form, 0.8 a canonical dish, 0.7 recurrent across many dishes, 0.6 common, 0.5 attested, 0.4 marginal or compound-led.
Each score is set against a named dish and carries that dish in its note. Where a score has not been examined it says so, because an inherited figure and a researched one should not look alike.
The dish is named by a reader who knows the cuisine and cites a source appropriate to it. It has not yet been confirmed inside that source page by page, so a note records what supports a score rather than what has been checked in the book.
Studio Culinar-E, "dried lime", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/dried-lime
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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.