[Sca-cooks] Ziryab: Authentic Arab Cuisine

[johnna holloway]

While deleting messages I came across this title and description.
 Those into Mideastern may want to check it out.

  Johnnae  Johnna (Only 100 yet to go)
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Ziryab: Authentic Arab Cuisine
By Farouk Mardam-Bey

Retail Price: $32.00
Here is a food-lover's version of Scheherazade's famous
thousand-and-one-nights of stories. Written in the voice of Ziryab, an
arbiter of taste in 9th century Iraq, it contains intriguing ancient
tales
of culinary and cultural lore which accompany more than 80 recipes.
Farouk
Mardam-Bey, the author, has been a food critic in Europe for many years.
He
offers us a fascinating sum of Arab gastronomy and its many facets, from
Ancient Persia to present day Morocco, revealing the magic of the simple
flavors of the Mediterranean climate.  A perfect gift idea for the
ethnic
food-lover on your gift list!