[Sca-cooks] Moghul Food

[David Friedman]

>I have never suggested modern cookbooks, so that's a lie.  I was 
>just trying to help by pointing out a few possibilities.


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>Duriel

In an earlier message, you wrote:

>Not 'Mongol'...'Moghul'.  Persia/Afghanistan/India.  Lots of 
>cookbooks from there.


Either you were proposing modern cookbooks, of which there are indeed 
lots, or you were saying that there were lots of period cookbooks 
from there. Since there aren't--the total, so far as I know, is one 
period Indian cookbook, a few other Indian things with scraps of 
information, and recipes in non-Persian period Islamic cookbooks that 
may  be Persian recipes--it seemed natural to assume that you were 
proposing modern cookbooks.

Weren't you? If you have references to lots of period cookbooks from 
Persia/Afghanistan/India several of us would be very interested.

>  If someone wants to find out about a culture, it is often advisable 
>to start with the modern equivalent and work backward.


Which sounds as though you were suggesting modern cookbooks--the 
statement you just described as a lie.

I can see that modern Indian cookbooks might be useful in 
interpreting ambiguities in peiod ones, but how does one "work 
backwards" from modern cookbooks without having period cookbooks to 
do it with?

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David/Cariadoc
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