[Sca-cooks] Sultan's Book of Delights-- late 15th century

[Elaine Koogler]

Huette von Ahrens wrote:

>--- Elaine Koogler <ekoogler1 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Thanks, Johnnae...since Christopher found the
>>less expensive one at 
>>Bigger Books, I went ahead and ordered a copy. 
>>I'm working on doing a 
>>Middle Eastern feast...it's about a year away,
>>but I'm collecting stuff 
>>early, and this sounded right in line with what
>>I want to do!
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>>Elaine
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>But India isn't part of the Middle East, as I
>have heard it defined.  
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>"An area comprising the countries of southwest
>Asia and northeast Africa."
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>'the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from
>Turkey to North Africa and eastward to Iran; the
>site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia
>and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of
>Judaism and Christianity and Islam; "the Middle
>East is the cradle of Western civilization"'
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>Shouldn't you be using Charles Perry's book
>"Medieval Arab Cookery"?
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>Huette
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Probably I should define the feast more clearly as "Islamic"...and I do 
have a copy of Perry's "Medieval Arab Cookery", which I also plan to 
use.  I just thought it might be intriguing to include some Mughal 
recipes from India.  We see a fair number of ME dishes in feasts here, 
but very rarely do we see anything that is Mughal or Indian.

Kiri

PS:  I may also include some dishes from the Spanish Moors, not to 
mention Naples, if I locate any!