Title Medieval Arab cookery = al-Ṭabīkh al-ʻArabī fī al-ʻuṣūr al-wusṭá / essays and translations by Maxime Rodinson, A.J. Arberry & Charles Perry ; with a foreward by Claudia Roden
Publication Info Devon, England : Prospect Books, 2006
Location Call Number Status
 Cloisters Library  TX725.M628 M43 2006  Reading Room  REQUESTABLE
Description 527 pages ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents Foreword / Claudia Roden -- A Baghdad cookery book (Kitāb al-ṭabīkh) / A.J. Arberry -- Studies in Arabic manuscripts relating to cookery / Maxime Rodinson -- Romanía and other Arabic words in Italian / Maxime Rodinson -- Maʼmūniyya East and West / Maxime Rodinson -- Venice, the spice trade and Eastern influences on European cooking / Maxime Rodinson -- What to order in ninth-century Baghdad / Charles Perry -- Elements of Arab feasting / Charles Perry -- Couscous and its cousins / Charles Perry -- Būrān : eleven hundred years in the history of a dish / Charles Perry -- Notes on Persian pasta / Charles Perry -- Shorba : a linguistico-chemico-culinary enquiry / Charles Perry -- Isfīdhabāj, blancmanger and no almonds / Charles Perry -- The wine Maqāma / Charles Perry -- The description of familiar foods (Kitāb waṣf al-aṭʻima al-muʻtāda) / Charles Perry -- Kitāb al-Ṭibākha : a fifteenth-century cookbook / Charles Perry -- Medieval Arab fish : fresh, dried and dyed / Charles Perry -- A thousand and one 'fritters' : the food of the Arabian Nights / Charles Perry -- The Ṣalṣ of the infidels / Charles Perry
Summary "The French scholar, Maxime Rodinson's contributions are legendary, yet have only been seen in translation in Petits Propos Culinaires. We include those already published there, together with the text of his longest paper, 'Recherches sur les documents Arabes relatifs a la cuisine', translated by Barbara Yeomans. The American scholar Charles Perry has been entertaining participants at the Oxford Symposium with regular gleanings from his researches into medieval Arab cookery, and several of his papers are gathered here, together with a new study of fish recipes, and other items previously published in PPC. Subjects include grain foods of the early Turks, rotted condiments, cooking pots, and Kitab al-Tibakhah, a 15th-century cookery book. English study of the subject was first encouraged by Professor Arberry's translation of the 13th-century cookery book Kitab al-Tabikh, published in 1939 in the periodical Islamic Culture." http://books.google.com/books?id=EbHYAAAAMAAJ
Notes English translations of various original Arabic works, with some Arabic
Subjects Cooking, Arab.
Arabs -- Food -- History
Cooking, Medieval.
Food habits -- Africa, North -- History
Additional Authors Rodinson, Maxime.
Arberry, A. J. (Arthur John), 1905-1969.
Other Title Ṭabīkh al-ʻArabī fī al-ʻuṣūr al-wusṭá
ISBN 9780907325918
0907325912
OCLC 245087170