[Sca-cooks] Ain-i Akbari

[David Friedman]

>A month and a half ago i bought a nice paperback cookbook on Moghul 
>Cooking. The author frustratingly quotes books she has read with NO 
>reference to the source :-( She has good recipes...
>
>Joyce Westrup. Moghul Cooking: India's Courtly Cuisine. Serif, London: 1997.
>
>She does have a nice bibliography. In it is:
>Abul Fazl. _Ain-i Akbari_ (3 vols.). Trans. H. Beveridge. Calcutta, 1907.
>
>Anyone have any info on this? Does it include the Ain-i Akbari 
>"cookbook"? The author of the Moghul cookbook calls the food part a 
>list of dishes and their ingredients. I know His Grace, Duke 
>Cariadoc has some of these on his website, but i'm want more, more, 
>more!


Ain i Akbari isn't a cookbook, it's an account (more or less) of life 
at Akbar's court--one volume of the Akbarnama. It has, I think, a 
total of thirty ingredient lists for dishes--with quantities but 
without intructions--plus instructions for arrack and for a flat 
bread that can be done in a frying pan. You are welcome to drop over 
sometime and read or photocopy it.
-- 
David/Cariadoc
www.daviddfriedman.com