[Sca-cooks] Rice in Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Sep 9, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Jim and Andi wrote:

> I just finished reading the entire Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook for  
> the
> second time, and I can't find a single reference to rice. No rice.
> Whatsoever. How is that possible? Did they not eat rice? Did they only
> eat their Buraniyyas and Tafayas with only bread?
>
> Madhavi

As I recall there are a number of instances where the cuisine of the  
AAC seems to diverge from what me might see as standard Islamic  
practice as represented by, say, al-Baghdadi.

IIRC, for instance, there are no chick peas used, and I forget which  
side of the oil coin it comes down on, but either olive or sesame is  
absent, but not both.

It's been suggested that some of the absent foods are considered by  
whomever wrote it as inappropriate for whatever reason, as in some  
class issue, or perhaps some of the dishes are throwbacks to a pre- 
Islamic Andalusia.

Adamantius






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