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

[Lilinah]

Johnna Holloway wrote:
>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.

I'm well aware of the cost of this book. That's why i said that it 
was "in the "A Soup for the Qan" price range", and why i included the 
URL to Brill's page for the book. I certainly appreciate your 
application of your miraculous librarian skills in digging up more 
info :-)

As for a couple weeks of rice and lentils, i have around $100 to 
spend on books this month. It's just that extra $95 i'll have to make 
up for by eating cheap.

But there are plenty of good Medieval Middle Eastern recipes for 
beans - or other pulses (e.g., favas, chickpeas, black-eyed peas, 
etc.) - and lentils, and probably some good ones in that book :-)

more books... more books... more books...

-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita
and sometimes known for bringing the Travelling Moorish Reading Room 
to West Kingdom events