العادات الغذائية في مدينة صفاقس خلال الفترة الوسيطة

Abstract EN

The city of Sfax has been known since ancient times for the difference in its table from the rest of the regions in Africa, and the responsible for this difference was its semi-arid climate, which made the people of this city adapt to the lack of water and food.

we chose the city of Sfax because of its distinctive feature, which is that this city is located on the sea.

it is also located almost in the middle of Africa, meaning that it was a connecting point between the south and the north.

does this site have a role in choosing the quality of their food ? this study dealt with what the people of the city of Sfax ate from food during the intermediate period.

he mentioned what they found of plant and animal food.

we also reviewed in it the most important foods that were found in the Sfaxian table during that period, and it became clear to us that this table has a characteristic, as there was a mixture between the Arab and Berber heritage in preparing food, but this mixture is considered to have a special feature in this city, where its people often concentrated on what they found of the ingredients, they made their food.

we were also interested in this research in the components of the Sfaxian cuisine during that period.

this study sheds light on the way the people of this region adapt to the lack of food, as we searched for the means they used to fill this shortage.

we can say that this work is part of the studies concerned with man’s conflict with nature, that is, we tried to highlight the results of drought on the human reality (represented in particular by food) in an African city during the intermediate period, whose climate was semi-arid.

this article is considered a supplement to another article we have published in another magazine entitled "the drought in the city of Sfax in the majority period and ways to address it".

the purpose of mentioning it here is to try to highlight what the people of this city were suffering because of the lack of water.

water and food are two complementary elements to human life and survival.