sumac
Cultural layer
The Oxford Companion to Food (Alan Davidson, 1999)
Rhus coriaria L. (Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, accessed 2026-10-04)
The Palestinian Table (Reem Kassis, 2017)
The Palestinian Table (Reem Kassis, 2017)
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
7 bonds · 6 sourcedSumac onions; musakhan.
Confirmed in The Palestinian Table: chicken, onion and sumac flatbreads, page 194, which Kassis calls msakhan.
Sumac over lamb: the egg and lamb fry-up, and shawarma with sumac onions.
Relocated in The Palestinian Table: egg and lamb fry-up, in Breakfast, and shawarma with onions and sumac, in Bakes and Braises.
Msakhan: onions cooked down in olive oil and sumac over bread.
Relocated in The Palestinian Table: chicken, onion and sumac flatbreads, page 194. The book has no fattoush.
Salad dressings of lemon, olive oil and sumac, on purslane and on sliced tomatoes.
Relocated in The Palestinian Table: purslane salad, and tomato, garlic and sumac salad, page 99. The book has no fattoush.
Sumac over the yogurt and garlic dip served with msakhan rolls.
Relocated in The Palestinian Table: chicken, sumac and pine nut rolls, page 86.
Fried eggs with za'atar and sumac, served with labneh.
Confirmed in The Palestinian Table: mini lamb flatbreads, page 52, and fried eggs with za'atar and sumac, served with labaneh.
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, "sumac", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/sumac
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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.