SC - interesting URL - food shopping!

[RButler96 at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/29/00 11:06:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
selene at earthlink.net writes:

> Sigh.  This is where Al-Baghdadi has it over European cookery books.  One 
of 
> these days I may construct a measuring cup marked in ratls and uqiya and 
see if 
> anybody understands.

    I tried to pay a glassmaker, a pottery maker, and a metalworker to make 
one of these for me... All stared and refused... Ah well.  If you succeed, 
please tell me how to do it... I would sincerely love to have one.  

    Khadijah bint Mika'il al-Zarqiyya'