[Sca-cooks] In a Caliph's Kitchen

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

The professor of a class, History 498 C - Tutorial on Pleasure and 
Vice in the Pre-Modern Middle East, has photocopied "In a Caliph's 
Kitchen" and turned the photocopies into PDF files. The book is 
divided into three files which are rather large (took a looong time 
on my dial-up connection)

You can access them here:
http://www.csun.edu/~rthowes/498%20Readings%20Home%20Page.html

There's also a piece about drinking, which i haven't read yet, by the 
8th century writer, al-Jahiz, excerpted from "Sobriety and Mirth: A 
Selection of the Shorter Writings of al-Jahiz", by Abu Uthman Amir 
Ibn Bahir al-Jahiz, Translated by Jim Colville, and some other 
interesting looking stuff.
-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita