Huevos con salsa- was Re: SC - Turkish Breakfast - OOP

[Philip & Susan Troy]

> david friedman wrote:
> >
> > Taciunem Sanitatas, which is a 14th c. latin book based on an Arabic
> > original, has a picture of bananas by someone who has clearly never seen
> > one, and says they are grown in Sicily. Sicily had been Muslim, was
> > conquered by by Normans in, I think, the 12th c., but may still
> have been
> > to some degree culturally Muslim later.
>
> Offhand, do you recall the dates for which Sicily and [I think]
> Catalonia were, for practical purposes, one kingdom? King Fernando,
> etc.? That might be one explanation for Muslim influences on Sicily.
>
> Adamantius

Well, Sicily was Muslim from the 9th century.  Then conquered by the Normans
in the late 11th; Catalonia helped a rebellion by the local population in
the War of
the Sicilian Vespers (1280s?), and Sicily became part of the Aragonese
empire at that
time.  (Aziz Ahmad's _History of Islamic Sicily_ goes into much more detail
for the
earlier period than I've had time to read, but he uses a comforting mix of
Italian
and Arabic sources.)  So Muslim influence certainly predated the coming of
the
Catalonians.

Violente de San Sebastiano de la Frontera
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