[Sca-cooks] Moghul Food
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Thu Jun 8 10:07:31 PDT 2006
Duriel wrote:
> >Not 'Mongol'...'Moghul'. Persia/Afghanistan/India. Lots of
> >cookbooks from there.
I had responded:
>There are no SCA-period Afghan cookbooks that i know of, and only a
>couple Indian ones. Other than the Ni'matnama, which has both Persian
>and Indian qualities, i've heard rumors of a surviving Persian
>cookbook, but if that's true, it hasn't been translated into any
>Western European language to the best of my knowledge.
Duriel then answered:
>Here's a site with all sorts of relevant content.
>http://home.earthlink.net/~lilinah/links-ME-cuisine.html
There's actually very little relevant content on this page.
There are no links on this page (which happens to be mine :-) to
SCA-period Afghan or Persian recipes.
The only relevant link to Moghul Indian food is to the several
recipes Duke Cariadoc worked out from the work Ain-i-Akbari, already
mentioned previously in this thread.
>and another for Indian research
>http://www.sonoma.edu/rpdc/nbisp/india/iresources.html
I don't much of anything about pre-17th century Moghul cooking on this page.
>Maybe contacting some Indian people would help.
They would need to be scholars of food history from before 1601, and
they're pretty rare, since most Indians, like most American and
Europeans, don't know much about food from over 400 years ago.
It seems to me that you continue to suggest we look at modern
cookbooks, which are almost always not relevant, when threads concern
SCA-period historical cooking. I've got plenty of Persian, Afghan,
and Indian cookbooks on my shelves, and most are modern and not
relevant to the topic.
We do sometimes talk about modern food (ah, the old "Lutheran binder"
thread), when such would be relevant. But you recommend modern stuff
in threads on historic cooking. Like to see your name in glowing
electrons?
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Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita
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