MEDIEVAL Near Eastern Food was Re: [Sca-cooks] The Priest Fainted

[david friedman]

>OK then.  What I want to find is some good solid sources from the eastern
>Mediterranean between the 14th and 17th Centuries, for from Greece from
>after Roman times to the 17th.  Are there any such things?  Did the Greeks
>just send out for pizza for 1000 years?  What did they all do for food
>=before= the relative homogeneity of modern Middle Eastern food?
>
>Selene C.

If you are asking specifically for Greece I can't help. If "from the
eastern mediterranean" includes the middle east, then the cookbook of
Ibn al Mubarad, which Charles Perry translated and published in PPC
and which is also in the collection I sell, qualifies. It's 15th
century.

And of course there are several sources for middle eastern 13th c. and before.
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David/Cariadoc
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