[Sca-cooks] Beef noodles and sour cream

[david friedman]

>And traditional
>Muslim food service basically brings out all the food at once - not
>that this is always done, as there has certainly been European
>influence on food service in some parts of Dar al-Islam.


I have seen it argued that the initial influence was the other
way--that the newfangled approach was invented by Ziryab, became
fashionable in al-Andalus, and then spread to Christian Europe from
there. What the evidence is I don't know.
--
David/Cariadoc
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