[Sca-cooks] A Baghdad Cookery Book by Perry

[Johnna Holloway]

Yes this is the NEW translation.
It corrects a number of errors found in the Arberry translation.

Johnnae


>>>PC 79 arrived in the mail this afternoon.
>>>The entire special issue is
>>>A Baghdad Cookery Book, newly translated by
>>>Charles Perry.
>>>127 pages. with glossary and notes.
>>>The 13th century text has been translated with many errors and
>>>misreadings corrected.
>>>It's simply marvelous.
>>>Johnnae llyn Lewis
>>>      
>>>
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>I was going to ask if he had made any changes in the last couple of years
>since the MEDIEVAL ARAB COOKERY [Prospect Books, 2001] anthology in which he
>took part... Then checked that volume only to find that Perry didn't
>actually do the Al-Baghdadi translation there, A.J. Arberry did.  snipped
>Bon Appetit, 
>Selene Colfox
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