[Sca-cooks] Rice in Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Sep 9, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Terry Decker wrote:

>>
>> 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
>
> There are a number of recipes that use chickpeas in the Anonymous  
> Andalusian.  The translator used the tern garbanzo.

I see. Okay, I am remembering commentary to the effect that there are  
certain areas of divergence; one was in legume type (maybe there are  
garbanzos but no favas?), the other is in oil types. I don't have the  
text immediately available.

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