SC - Andelusian cookbooks

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/15/98 3:21:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ddfr at best.com
writes:

<< no period
 North African cookbooks unless you count recipes in Andalusian cookbooks.
 
 David/Cariadoc >>

Here's a question for you Your Grace. I read your statement above and went
rushing off to check al-Baghdadi. NOT  North African bt any means. However, I
was wondering if you include this manuscript in your definition of
'Andalusian'? I had thought that it was actually from the Middle East as
opposed to being from Spain. 

The connection with North Africa is that it contains a good number of recipes
that are very similar to a modern Ethiopian cookbook and Egyptian cookbook
that I have. Would it be possible to extrapolate a connection or is the
simalarrity merely a matter of cultural infusion over the centuries? 

I have tried to broach this subject on the Islamic historical list but the
professors on that particular list do not seem view agriculture or cooking as
having any significant impact on al-Islam or vice versa. The only responce was
from a professor who wrote me privately to request that I forward any info I
could find. :-( 

I have also been unsuccessful in finding a translator for the copy of the 16th
century manuscript that I was gifted with by another university friend so I
have run up against a wall with regards to tracing the changes in cooking
styles in the ME. Are their any relatively inexpensive courses available
through whatever means for a person to learn Arabic as this appers to be my
only recourse to getting this manual translated. My background is ,
unfortunately, entirely centered around the Romance languages. :-(

Ras
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