[Sca-cooks] Rice in Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook?

[Terry Decker]

>
> 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.

Bear