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Kurdish food and everyday culture

Kurdish kitchens, hospitality and the customs of everyday life, from village bread ovens to the Newroz picnic.

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  1. Ahmadpour M, Shakibazadeh E, Ghoochani BZ et al. (2026). Explanation of barriers and facilitators to promote Food and Nutrition Literacy (FNLit) in Kurdish children: a qualitative study.. BMC Nutr. DOI 10.1186/s40795-026-01330-3
  2. Saffyan Mirza (2026). Khidr Ilyas and Khidr Nabi in the Documentary Record: Fasting, Dream Divination, Ritual Food, and the Horse’s Trace across Kurdish, Yezidi, and Armenian Traditions. Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22710276
  3. Edwardo Dinkha, Fakhir Najmadeen Qara Mohammed (2025). INVESTIGATING SEMANTIC PROTOTYPES OF FOOD IN BAHDINI KURDISH. Govara zanistîn mirovayetî ya-zankoya Zaxo. DOI 10.26436/hjuoz.2025.13.1.1537
  4. Michel P. Pimbert (2021). Regenerating Kurdish Ecologies through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology, and Economies of Care. Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement. DOI 10.5040/9781978740594.ch-8
  5. Nima Mohammadi, Nikoo Ostovar (2023). Chemical composition, fatty acid composition, and volatile compounds of a traditional Kurdish fermented cereal food: Tarkhineh. Food Chemistry Advances. DOI 10.1016/j.focha.2023.100187

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01Fields

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  • Cuisines of the regions
  • Newroz and the Kurdish calendar
  • Hospitality and etiquette
  • Weddings and rites of passage

02Classification

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OECD Fields of Research and Development (FORD), Frascati Manual 2015, Table 2.25.4OECD
ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013)0314UNESCO Institute for Statistics

03Courses

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  • Kurdish food and everyday culture · Foundations

    Kurdish cuisine by region

    Kurdish food from the mountains to the cities, and what it carries of history and family.

    Wave 1 · 10 h Outline drafted

  • Kurdish food and everyday culture · Foundations

    Newroz and the Kurdish calendar

    Newroz, its customs and meanings, and the calendars Kurds use.

    Wave 1 · 6 h Outline drafted

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06Related service subsites

  • Heritage

    History from the Zagros to today, memory, faiths, arts, literature and food.

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    Faiths of Kurdistan

    The faiths of Kurdistan include Islam and its Sufi orders, Alevism, Yazidism, Yarsan, Judaism and Christianity, each represented by its own community.

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08Research and sources

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  1. Explanation of barriers and facilitators to promote Food and Nutrition Literacy (FNLit) in Kurdish children: a qualitative study.

    Ahmadpour M, Shakibazadeh E, Ghoochani BZ et al. · 2026 · BMC Nutr

    ArticleEurope PMCDOAJOpen access

  2. Khidr Ilyas and Khidr Nabi in the Documentary Record: Fasting, Dream Divination, Ritual Food, and the Horse’s Trace across Kurdish, Yezidi, and Armenian Traditions

    Saffyan Mirza · 2026 · Zenodo

    PreprintDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  3. INVESTIGATING SEMANTIC PROTOTYPES OF FOOD IN BAHDINI KURDISH

    Edwardo Dinkha, Fakhir Najmadeen Qara Mohammed · 2025 · Govara zanistîn mirovayetî ya-zankoya Zaxo

    ArticleOpenAlexDOAJOpen accessCC-BY-NC-SA

  4. Regenerating Kurdish Ecologies through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology, and Economies of Care

    Michel P. Pimbert · 2021 · Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement

    OtherCrossref

  5. Chemical composition, fatty acid composition, and volatile compounds of a traditional Kurdish fermented cereal food: Tarkhineh

    Nima Mohammadi, Nikoo Ostovar · 2023 · Food Chemistry Advances

    ArticleCrossrefDOAJOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

  6. Food as a marker for economy and part of identity: traditional vegetal food of Yezidis and Kurds in Armenia

    Roman Hovsepyan, Nina Stepanyan-Gandilyan, Hamlet Melkumyan et al. · 2016 · Journal of Ethnic Foods

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  7. تأثير تبن الشعير المعامل کيمياوياً على کمية الماکول و الماء المتناول ومعدل النمو و بعض صفات الدم في الحملان الکرادية Effect of Chemically Treated Barley Straw on the Amount of Food and Water Intakes, Growth Rate and Some Blood Measurements in Kurdish Lambs

    ئاوات يوسف, کويستان امين, محمد عارف · 2016 · Journal of Animal and Poultry Production

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  8. Isolation and Identification of Lactic Acid Bacteria in Kurdish Cheese during Ripening using 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis

    Elnaz Milani, Fakhri Shahidi, Seyed Ali Mortazavi et al. · 2016 · Journal of Food Processing and Preservation

    ArticleCrossref

  9. Where tulips and crocuses are popular food snacks: Kurdish traditional foraging reveals traces of mobile pastoralism in Southern Iraqi Kurdistan

    Andrea Pieroni, Hawre Zahir, Hawraz Ibrahim M. Amin et al. · 2019 · Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  10. Development and evaluation of an intervention to improve food and nutrition literacy among Iranian Kurdish primary school children: An application of intervention mapping approach

    Mohammad Ahmadpour, Nasrin Omidvar, Elham Shakibazadeh et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Public Health

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  11. Surgical Correction of Complicated Buccal Food Impaction in a Four-Year Old Kurdish Ewe

    Niloofar Seydi, Ali Ghashghaii · 2019 · Iranian Journal of Veterinary Surgery

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DataCite (CC0 1.0 (DataCite metadata)), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; Europe PMC (Metadata reusable; full text under each article’s licence), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; OpenAlex (CC0-1.0 data; metered API (free key)), 2026-10-23; Zenodo (Metadata CC0 1.0; each record under its own licence), 2026-10-23.

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