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A Taste of Empire: Eighteenth-Century Eastern and Western European Women’s Journeys into Ottoman Culinary Spaces

This paper focuses on two travel narratives written by women in the wake of the first significant defeat of the Ottoman empire in Europe, the Battle of Vienna in 1683. The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) and Proceder podróży i życia mego awantur [My Life’s Travels and Adventures] (1760/1957) by Salomée Halpir (1718–after 1760). As numerous critics have noted, the mobility of Lady Montagu encouraged interest in representations of the Ottoman Empire as a country of sumptuousness, luxury, and debauchery. Even though the book of Salomée Halpir is less known, the same elements may be found there. This paper will investigate the cross-cultural