[Sca-cooks] Rice in Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook?
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Wed Sep 9 17:12:48 PDT 2009
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.
Adamantius
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when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's
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