[Sca-cooks] Romanian sources [long]

[david friedman]

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>>Do you have period recipes from Turkey? I don't know of any, although
>>we have period cookbooks from elsewhere in the Islamic world.
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>No, that was the next thing I was going to search for (I thought some of
>those islamic recipes would have been from or near Turkey) but suddenly my
>hopes are crashing down :-)
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>Although there should also be some byzantine cookbooks around, I hope...

Would that it were so.

There is probably information about Turkish cooking, since it was a
literate society. But if there is an actual period Turkish cookbook,
I haven't been able to find it. The available cookbooks are
Andalusian, Middle Eastern (the author of one was from Baghdad), and,
in one case, Mughal.

It's possible that one of them might have recipes identified as
Turkish, but I don't remember any examples.

Ibn Battuta, who was a North African world traveler, travelled in
Anatolia--part of what is now Turkey. I'm pretty sure he discusses
food, although I wouldn't expect recipes.
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David/Cariadoc
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