[Sca-cooks] Fwd: FW: Mongol foodways

[Saint Phlip]

OK, folks,  Paul just checked with Mary Isin, whom he considers to be
THE definitive expert on the topic. Perry's al-Baghdadi was a
translation of the original recipes- these recipes are, in fact
additional to the basic al-Baghdadi by Sirvani, so the recipes are in
fact period, and different, from those in Perry's translation of
al-Baghdadi.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Isin
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 9:59 PM
To: Paul Buell
Subject: Re: Mongol foodways

A doctor called Sirvani, who lived until mid-15th C, translated
Bagdadi's cookbook into Turkish, and added around seventy recipes of
his own, as well as making some revealing changes to some of Bagdadi's
recipes. There are also a few recipes in early 15 C medical books, one
by Hacı Pasha.

On 7/4/06, Paul Buell  wrote:
> I have a question for you, one that someone asked me: when did the first
> recipes in Turkish (Ottoman) appear? Were there any as early as the
mid-15th
> century, as a continuation to that Baghdadi Cookbook, for example? Paul D.
> Buell

So, hopefully, the confusion is solved- sorry about that ;-)


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