[Sca-cooks] FW: Turkish Recipe

[Nicholas S. Malone]

He founded one of the sufi sects of islam.  And while a lot of his 
writing is considered arabic poetry, I have no reference or index for 
any of them being recipes let alone with tomatoes.  He was very much 
dedicated to love, brotherly and otherwise

Pat wrote:

>Hmmm, has anyone heard of this 13th Century Philosopher?  
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>kingstaste at mindspring.com wrote:Ok, he finally sent something that has some sort of documentation with it.
>I'm a bit out of my element with the Middle Eastern cuisine (although I'll
>eat a chick pea if it turns out tomatoes were known in 14th century Turkey).
>Anyone want to comment on this?
>Christianna
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: notify at yahoogroups.com [mailto:notify at yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
>Kinjal of Moravia
>Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 5:21 PM
>To: kingstaste at mindspring.com
>Subject: Turkish Recipe
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>Thsi documentation was considered suffient and noteworthy for an
>13th century period cooking competition in the Principality of
>Cynagua, 2003. The URL's are on my brothers computer in Sacramento,
>CA but I can attempt to get them
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>This recipe was prepared and given to me in 1968 by a Turkish
>Language Professor, together with much verbal history. I have
>documented several parts of the story of origin, use and
>ingredients. The Turkish saying "Never mind what you ate and drank,
>tell me where you have been and what you have seen", shows it was
>considered bad manners to talk about food and this is why there is
>little culinary literature in Turkish, though it is considered one
>of three great cuisines of the world. Poems which contained recipes
>were passed down verbatim for thousands of years.
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>The use of cold rice dishes with tomatoes, and the use of all the
>listed ingredients, is documented in the literary works of Mevlana
>Jalaluddin Rumi, a philosopher who lived in the 13th century.
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>Pat Griffin
>Lady Anne du Bosc
>known as Mordonna the Cook
>Shire of Thorngill, Meridies
>Mundanely, Millbrook, AL
>Vert, between four cauldrons or, a cross checky argent and sable
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