[Sca-cooks] Rice in Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook?
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Wed Sep 9 17:04:48 PDT 2009
>
> 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
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