Medieval Arab Cookery

£20.00

A collection of translations and commentaries on important essays and texts relating to cooking in the medieval Arab world.

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Description

A collection of translations and commentaries on important essays and texts relating to cooking in the medieval Arab world.

Includes sections on:

  • A Baghdad Cookery book
  • Studies in Arabic Manuscripts relating to Cookery
  • Elements of Arab Feasting
  • Couscous and its cousins
  • Buran: Eleven Hundred Years in the history of a Dish
  • Notes on Persian Pasta
  • The description of Familiar foods
  • Kitab-al-Tibakha: A Fifteenth Century Cookbook
  • Medieval Arab fish: Fresh, Dried and Dyed
  • and more.

Note the book does not include illustrations.

The dust wrapper is in near fine condition, clean, with a little creasing to the top edge. Inside, there are a few very minor marks to the first few pages, otherwise the content is clean and in near fine condition. A very nice copy.

Medieval Arab Cookery Essays and Translations By Maxine Rodinson, A. J. Arberry & Charles Perry

  • Published by Prospect Books, 2006
  • Hardback
  • Reprint
  • 8vo
  • 527 pages