1. European Consumers’ Definition and Perception of Traditional Foods Wim Verbeke, Filiep Vanhonacker, Luis Guerrero,Valerie Lengard Almli and Margrethe Herslet
2. Consumers’ Valuation and Quality Perception of Kid’s Meat From Traditional “Cabrito Da Gralheira” - Protected Geographical Indication António L. Ribeiro, Ana P. Moura and Luís M. Cunha
3. Traditional Fermented Foods in Thailand Busaba Yongsmith, Wanna Malapan
4. Increasing Romanian’s Traditional Food Added Value through Integration into the Protected Geographical Designations System Gabriela Nedita, Nastasia Belc, Lucia Romanescu and Roxana Cristina Gradinariu
5. Traditional Foods in Slovakia Jan Brindza, Dezider Toth, Radovan Ostrovsky, Lucia Kucelova
6. Traditional Foods in Turkey: General and Consumer Aspects Ferruh Erdoğdu, Beraat Özçelik, Fahrettin Göğüş, Semih Ötleş
Part II Traditional Dairy Products
7. Indian Traditional Fermented Dairy Products Narender Raju Panjagari, Ram Ran Bijoy Singh and Ashish Kumar Singh
8. Traditional Bulgarian Dairy Food Aladjadjiyan Anna, Ivanka Zheleva, Yordanka Kartalska
9. Dulce de Leche: Technology, Quality and Consumer Aspects of the Traditional Milk Caramel of South America María Cecilia Penci and María Andrea Marín
Part III Tradi
tional Cereal Based Products
10. Austrian Dumplings Josefa Friedel,
Helmut Glattes and Gerhard Schleining
11. French Bread Baking Alain SOMMIER, Yannick ANGUY, Imen DOUIRI, Elisabeth DUMOULIN
12. Traditional Rye Sourdough Bread in the Baltic Region Grazina Juodeikiene, Kaunas University of Technology
13. The Legume Grains: When Tradition Goes Hand In Hand with Nutrition Vasconcelos, Marta Wilton and Gomes, Ana Maria
14. Traditional Food Products from Prosopis sp. Flour Leonardo Pablo Sciammaro, Daniel Pablo Ribotta and Maria Cecilia Puppo
15. Amaranth: an Andean Crop with History. It´s feeding reassessment in America Myriam Villarreal, Laura Iturriaga
Part IV Traditional Meat and Fish Products
16. Yunnan Fermented Meat: Xuanwei Ham, Huotui Huang Aixiang, Sarote Sirisansaneeyakul and Yusuf Chisti
17. Selected Viennese Meat Specialties Elias Gmeiner, Helmut Glattes and Gerhard Schleining
18. Norse Dried Fish Trude Wicklund
19. Utilization of Different Raw Materials from Sheep and Lamb in Norway. Trude Wicklund
20. Muxama and Estupeta: Traditional Food Products Obtained from Tuna Loins in South Portugal and Spain Jaime Aníbal and Eduardo Esteves
21. Salting and Drying of Cod Helena Oliveira, Maria Leonor Nunes, Paulo Vaz-Pi
res, Rui Costa
22. Brazilian Charqui Meats Ma
ssami Shimokomaki, Carlos Eduardo Rocha Garcia, Mayka Reghiany Pedrão, Fabio Augusto Garcia Coró
Part V Traditional Beverages<23. German Beer Martin Zarnkow
24. “Pálinka” – Hungarian Distilled Fruit Zsuzsanna László, Cecila Hodúr, József Csanádi
25. Tokaji Aszú – “the Wine of Kings, the King of Wines” Cecilia Hodúr, József Csanádi, Zsuzsa László
26. Mead - The Oldest Alcoholic Beverage Rajko Vidrih, Janez Hribar
27. Midus - a Traditional Lithuanian Mead Rimantas Kublickas
29. “Dobos”: A super-cake from Hungary Elisabeth T. Kovács
30. Traditional Green Table Olives from the South of Portugal Maria Alves and Célia Quintas
31. Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Table Olives from Slovenian Istra Milena Bučar-Miklavčič, Bojan Butinar, Vasilij Valenčič, Erika Bešter, Mojca Korošec, Terezija Golob, Sonja Smole Možina
32. A Perspective on Production and Quality of Argentinian Nut Oils Marcela Lilian Martínez and Damián Modesto Maestri
33. Pupunha (Bactris gasipaes): General and Consumption Aspects Carolina Vieira Bezerra and Luiza Helena Meller da Silva
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.
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 from China, 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.