[Sca-cooks] ebay alert - Arberry/Perry

[Huette von Ahrens]

This is a recent book and available thru Poison Pen
Press and Food Words for $55.00.  The starting bid was
only a couple of dollars less than the original price.
No much of a bargain for a used book.

Huette

--- "Cindy M. Renfrow" <cindy at thousandeggs.com> wrote:
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1532924142
>
> "Here is a gathering of translations of and
> commentaries on significant
> texts relating to cookery in the medieval Arab
> world. In the
> first place there is a reprinting of the late
> Professor A.J. Arberry's
> translation of al-Baghdadi's Kitab al- Tabikh, a
> thirteenth-century
> text. This was first published as 'A Baghdad Cookery
> Book' in 1939. Then
> there is a collection of studies relating to
> medieval Arab
> cookery, and particularly its relationship to the
> cookery of Europe, by the
> French linguist, historian and sociologist Maxime
> Rodinson. These translations are new to the wider
> public. His most
> substantial essay is a consideration of the major
> text, Kitib
> a]-wusla ila a]-ha bib li- wasfaltayyibit wa a]-tib
> (The book, of the bonds
> of friendship or a description of good dishes and
> perfumes).
>
> The work of the American scholar Charles Perry on
> the cookery of the Middle
> East and Central Asia has attracted tremendous
> plaudits. Here may be read some entertaining and
> instructive chapters on
> aspects of medieval Arab cookery and, most important
> of
> all, here is his translation of the extensive
> fourteenth-century recipe
> collection Kitab wasf'al-at'ima a]-mu'tada (The
> description of
> familiar foods), as well as studies of later texts
> such as the Kit.ab
> a]-tibakha (The book of cookery).
>
> 'To study these manuscripts is to sense the medieval
> Arab world's busy
> trade in cookbooks. The earlier manuscript of K.
> Wasf itself
> based on al-Baghdadi and its sources, as well as
> many others, already shows
> signs of perhaps dozens of generations of copying,'
> writes Charles Perry. What is even more remarkable
> to the modern reader is
> the degree to which there seems to be a continuous
> thread stretching back from our own kitchens to
> those of thirteenth-century
> Bagdad or Cairo, and thence to ancient Persia or to
> the
> burning fires of Frankish crusaders."
>
> Cindy
>
>
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