[Sca-cooks] A Baghdad Cookery Book in 2006

[Elaine Koogler]

Johnna Holloway wrote:

> Turns out that those of us who subscribe to PPC will be receiving this
> as a special issue of the journal.
>
> Tom Jaine wrote:
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> In early September we will be publishing a new translation by Charles 
> Perry of Al Baghdadi's 'Kitab al-Tabikh', under the title of A Baghdad 
> Cookery Book. The format will be the same as Petits Propos Culinaires 
> (PPC), the price will be GBP10.00, the ISBN 1-903018-420. This will in 
> fact be a special issue of PPC, i.e. PPC no.79, but will also be 
> commercially available as a stand-alone book. PPC subscribers are of 
> course getting it at a bargain price. Charles Perry has been to 
> Istanbul to inspect the manuscripts of Al Baghdadi's masterwork 
> (hitherto available in Arberry's translation which we reprinted in 
> Medieval Arab Cookery of 2001) and he has come up with a more 
> accurate, and more nuanced, version. This will be a big day for Arabic 
> food history.
>
> The rest can buy it next  year I guess.
>
> Johnnae
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Johnnae,
Do you have any idea when the PPC edition will be coming out?  I just 
ordered the paperbook from David Brown Books (Oxbow), and I don't know 
that it'll be in in tme for when I need it...I'm cooking a Mid-Eastern 
feast in February, and would love to have this as a reference.

Kiri