SC - Literal translation-cow's eyes
Stephen Bloch
sbloch at adl15.adelphi.edu
Sat Dec 27 13:16:00 PST 1997
Ras wrote:
> >A good example of the caution flag for a lteral translation would be Middle
> >Eastern recipes. There are several recipes which call for cow's eyes. What is
> >actually meant is a whole different ball of wax. IIRC, it really is asking
> >for dates or figs or somesuch. Cariadoc , could you please jog my memory
> >here?
And Cariadoc replied:
> Prunes, according to a note in the translation of the Andalusian cookbook,
> I presume by Charles Perry although he might be quoting Ambrosio
> Huici-Miranda.
That footnote appears in Miranda's translation, and in my
second-generation translation, before Charles Perry started work on it.
mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib
Stephen Bloch
sbloch at panther.adelphi.edu
http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/
Math/CS Dept, Adelphi University
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