[Sca-cooks] Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens was New cookbook?

[Johnna Holloway]

You may have to eat lentils and rice for more than a couple weeks.
Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens is running closer to $200 than $100.
I price searched it last week. Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens
Ibn Sayya-r al-Warra-q's Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook
English Translation with Introduction and Glossary by Nawal Nasrallah
Hardback 876 pages at $195.00.
UK price is 139.00 pounds which at the current rate would be over $280.
Cheapest I have found is $150.00 plus shipping.

Johnnae


Lilinah wrote:
> I'm also *very excited* about the publication this month of :
> Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens : Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's 
> Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook
> English Translation with Introduction and Glossary by Nawal Nasrallah
> http://www.brill.nl/product_id24049.htm
>
> It's a very substantial book, around 900 pages, but it is up in the 
> "A Soup for the Qan" price range. Brill is an excellent scholarly 
> press and most of their books, being highly specialized, are 
> expensive - i've purchased other Brill books and they've always been 
> in the $100 range. Now that the US dollar is tanking drastically vs. 
> the Euro, this makes European books even more expensive.
>
> Still, i'm definitely getting it, if i have to eat nothing but rice 
> and lentils for a couple weeks this month. So few recipes from it 
> have been published in English, mostly in David Waines' "In a 
> Caliph's Kitchen", although Charles Perry published some modernized 
> versions in a recent SaudiAramco magazine.