[Sca-cooks] Rice in Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook?

[Stefan li Rous]

Madhavi asked:

<<< 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? >>>

Yes, that isn't surprising. Rice didn't get to large parts of Europe  
until late in period. I seem to remember 13th C. The Anonymous  
Andalusian Cookbook is much earlier.

This file in the FOOD-BREADS section of the Florilegium has more  
details.
rice-msg          (99K) 11/22/07  Period rice. Recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BREADS/rice-msg.html

Stefan
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