SC - Another Arabic Cookbook

[david friedman]

Actually, it is at:

http://www.celticcat.com/JCorbin/ArabicRecipes/index.html


Apparently the server is case sensitive, because the lower case 
version of the URL didn't work, at least for me.

Judging by the recipes listed, it is a collection of modern recipes 
from the Islamic world, not of period recipes. I note, for example, 
two recipes for "harisa," in both cases a pepper sauce--the modern 
North African dish. There are no recipes for the medieval harisa, 
which was a very common and entirely different dish.

I didn't notice any recipes that I recognized as period Islamic--and 
there are lots that use New World ingredients. So far as I know, 
there are no surviving Islamic cookbooks from between 1492 and 1600.

I have no idea how good the historical information is. So far as I 
can tell, the author doesn't list an email address, so can't ask her 
about it--(snailmail? what's snailmail?)


At 9:14 PM -0500 3/9/00, Aldyth at aol.com wrote:
>While at a research gathering last night, one of the ladies had me look at
>her newest cookbook.  It is Arabic Recipes and History for the Medieval
>Feast.  Written by J. Corbin.  It gives a web page of :
>
>http://celticcat.com/jcorbin/arabicrecipes/index.html
>
>It shows the cover, the recipe titles, and to order send $25 to....
>
>Does anyone have this one?
>It has pumpkins, tomatoes and bell peppers....
>
>Aldyth
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David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
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