eggplant
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
Rite
The Japanese proverb of the year's first dream ranks Mount Fuji, a hawk and an eggplant as the three luckiest things to see, and nobody entirely agrees why the third is there. In Arabic the eggplant is the poor household's meat, and imam bayildi, the imam fainted, is named for a cleric overcome by either the dish or the cost of the oil. A vegetable of poverty is also a fixture of auspicious lists.
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time (Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, 1993)
Connections
12 bonds · 10 sourcedNasu dengaku.
Confirmed in Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art: eggplant dengaku, page 194.
Set in bold capitals in The Flavor Bible: very highly recommended by a large number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for eggplant in the 2008 edition.
Set in bold capitals in The Flavor Bible: very highly recommended by a large number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for eggplant in the 2008 edition.
Set in bold capitals in The Flavor Bible: very highly recommended by a large number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for eggplant in the 2008 edition.
Rummaniyyeh, the Gazan eggplant and lentil stew soured with dibs rumman.
Confirmed in The Palestinian Table: eggplant, lentil and pomegranate stew, in Soups and Stews, which Kassis introduces as a famous dish from Gaza finished with pomegranate molasses. The book does not print the name rummaniyyeh.
Yuxiang qiezi.
Begun.
Pinakbet.
Searched in Memories of Philippine Kitchens, 2012 edition, pages 114 and 115, the authentic Ilocano pinakbet: baby eggplants, bitter melon, squash blossoms, katuray, okra and tomatoes layered over bagnet and ginger, seasoned with bagoong monamon. The cited 2006 edition was not the copy in hand.
Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for eggplant in the 2008 edition.
Mahshi batinjan, the stuffed eggplant, baharat through the hashweh.
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, "eggplant", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/eggplant
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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.