[Sca-cooks] Sumac recipes request

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Giano wrote:
>  >Sumaqiyya, IIRC from the 'Description of Familiar Foods' contains sumac, and
>  >Milh Mutayyab from both that source and al-Baghdadi can. I also think there
>  >is something the the Ni'Namatma (sp?) - that Malwan cookbook. Haven't been

Lucrezia queried:
>  Thanks. Could you give me the cookbooks' modern sources please.

The Book of the Description of Familiar Foods and a better 
al-Baghdadi (same old Arberry translation, but with Charles Perry's 
updates in footnotes) are both in the inestimable "Medieval Arab 
Cookery", one of my favorite period cookbook sources (because there 
are several cookbooks in this one book)

Medieval Arab Cookery
by Maxime Rodinson, A.J. Arberry & Charles Perry
(and especially Charles Perry - who wrote many essays, translated two 
cookbooks, and footnoted Arberry's old translation which is fraught 
with errors)
Devon, England: Prospect Books, 2001.

BTW, Charles Perry will be publishing real soon a new translation of 
al-Baghdadi from the original (whoopey!).

The Ni'matnama is "a bit" expensive for those not dedicated to 
"oriental" cuisine or who are not compulsive period cookbook buyers 
(circa $125 US). It is a (comparatively) recently published Indian 
cookbook with some Persian content,

The Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu:
The Sultan's Book of Delights
translated by Norah M. Titley.
London & New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

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