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Traditional Foods

General and Consumer Aspects

  • Detailed descriptions of specific traditional foods
  • Focus on the beneficial or functional properties of traditional foods
  • History of traditional foods based on region

Part of the book series: Integrating Food Science and Engineering Knowledge Into the Food Chain (ISEKI-Food, volume 10)

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
  2. General Aspects of Traditional Foods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. European Consumers’ Definition and Perception of Traditional Foods

      • Wim Verbeke, Luis Guerrero, Valerie Lengard Almli, Filiep Vanhonacker, Margrethe Hersleth
      Pages 3-16
    3. Traditional Fermented Foods in Thailand

      • Busaba Yongsmith, Wanna Malaphan
      Pages 31-59
    4. Traditional Food in Romania Integrated in a Protected Geographical Designations System

      • Gabriela Nedita, Nastasia Belc, Lucia Romanescu, Roxana Cristina Gradinariu
      Pages 61-70
    5. Traditional Foods in Slovakia

      • Jan Brindza, Dezider Toth, Radovan Ostrovsky, Lucia Kucelova
      Pages 71-84
    6. Traditional Foods in Turkey: General and Consumer Aspects

      • Semih Ötleş, Beraat Özçelik, Fahrettin Göğüş, Ferruh Erdoğdu
      Pages 85-98
  3. Traditional Dairy Products

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
    2. Indian Traditional Fermented Dairy Products

      • Narender Raju Panjagari, Ram Ran Bijoy Singh, Ashish Kumar Singh
      Pages 101-114
    3. Traditional Bulgarian Dairy Food

      • Anna Aladjadjiyan, Ivanka Zheleva, Yordanka Kartalska
      Pages 115-122
  4. Traditional Cereal Based Products

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. Austrian Dumplings

      • Josefa Friedel, Helmut Glattes, Gerhard Schleining
      Pages 139-155
    3. French Bread Baking

      • Alain Sommier, Yannick Anguy, Imen Douiri, Elisabeth Dumoulin
      Pages 157-171
    4. Traditional Rye Sourdough Bread in the Baltic Region

      • Grazina Juodeikiene
      Pages 173-187
    5. The Legume Grains: When Tradition Goes Hand in Hand with Nutrition

      • Marta Wilton Vasconcelos, Ana Maria Gomes
      Pages 189-208
    6. Traditional Food Products from Prosopis sp. Flour

      • Leonardo Pablo Sciammaro, Daniel Pablo Ribotta, Maria Cecilia Puppo
      Pages 209-216
    7. Amaranth: An Andean Crop with History, Its Feeding Reassessment in America

      • Myriam Villarreal, Laura Beatriz Iturriaga
      Pages 217-232
  5. Traditional Meat and Fish Products

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233

About this book

This first volume of the Trilogy of Traditional Foods, part of the ISEKI Food Series, covers general and consumer aspects of traditional foods. It offers numerous recipes of traditional foods from across the world, with some chapters providing detailed descriptions on how to mix, cook, bake or store a particular food item in order to produce the desired effect.



Traditional Foods; General and Consumer Aspects is divided into six sections. The first section focuses on general aspects of traditional foods and covers the perception of traditional foods and some general descriptions of traditional foods in different countries. This is followed by sections on Traditional Dairy Products, Traditional Cereal Based Products, Traditional Meat and Fish Products, Traditional Beverages and Traditional Deserts, Side Dishes and Oil products from various countries.



The international List of Contributors, which includes authors fromChina, Bulgaria, Portugal, France, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, and Brazil, to name a few, shows its truly international perspective. The volume caters to the practicing food professional as well as the interested reader.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Iceland, Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Kristberg Kristbergsson

  • University College Cork, School of Engineering, Cork, Ireland

    Jorge Oliveira

About the editors

Kristberg Kristbergsson is Professor of Food Science at the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Iceland. Dr. Kristbergsson has a BS in Food Science from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Iceland and earned his MS, M. Phil and PhD in Food Science from Rutgers University.  His research interests include physicochemical properties of foods, new processing methods for sea foods, modernization of traditional food processes, safety and environmental aspects of food processing, extrusion cooking, shelf-life and packaging, biopolymers in foods and delivery systems for bioactive compounds. 


Jorge Oliveira is Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at University College Cork. He is a chartered chemical engineer from the University of Porto, with a PhD from University of Leeds. His research interests include Product Design Engineering with an emphasis on new methods to bridge cognitive science and neurophysiology, the study of food perception and choice using emotional space as a target for new product development, new methodologies, experimental design and data analysis methods for consumer assessment of foods and beverages, and kinetics of quality and safety factors in bioprocesses and process modelling.

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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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