Rice Re: [Sca-cooks] table service in Spanish Islamic and Jewish cultures?

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Also sprach david friedman:
> >Manuscrito Anonimo has a brief discussion of the difference between
> >the cultured, up to date way of serving feasts (each dish
> >separately, with a discussion of order of service, I think) and the
> >old fashioned, uncultured way (big pile of rice, some of this dish
> >on it here, some of that there, ...  much less trouble for serving,
> >whch is why we do it that way). I gather the cultured way was a
> >westen innovation credited to Ziryab and that the old fashioned way
> >was retained in eastern Islam.

Hm.. does that mean that I should definitely plan Rice in my moorish
course for the Spanish feast?

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