SC - Unhistoric things we serve WAS:Shepherds Pie

[DeeWolff@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/9/00 6:57:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
ekoogler at chesapeake.net writes:

> Unless I'm really out in left field (which is, of course, always possible), 
> this is the same Islamic cookery book that Duke Cariadoc included in his 
> collection of cookery books....

    No, he doesn't actually include the text of the book in his collection.  
He mentions it, but doesn't include it.

    I have a problem with Cariadoc anyway.  He has set himself up as an 
expert in terms of "all things arabic", but he is very, very selective.  If 
he doesn't like something, or if it is not a part of his very narrow view of 
what it means to be arabic (which, if I remember correctly, should be read as 
"what it means to be Moorish"), then not only is it not period, its simply 
not realistic and/or true.
    When we pointed out that the Islamic world was (and remains) bigger than 
the areas of Morocco and Algeria that he concentrates on, we were told we 
were mistaken, than we were using non-period sources, or that we were just 
plain wrong.
He is thus hardly the expert he sets himself up to be.

    Or let me be more precise.  About the Moors and all things Moorish, yes 
he is an expert.  About the greater, larger world of period Islam, he is far 
from it, mainly because, unfortunately, he chooses to ignore anything outside 
of his own interests.

    (A view which is common in society as a whole, unfortunately.)

    Sayyid Suleyman al Rashid ibn Beyazid
    Proud Ottoman Turk.