[Sca-cooks] Sixteenth Century Turkish

[emilio szabo]

Here is another source: 

Guillaume Postel: Des histoires orientales et principalement des Turkes ... Paris 1575.

The PDF is available at:

http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10208790-0

In a small glossary (PDF # 43) he mentions: Iugurt, Tsorba and Pilau.

On page 104 (PDF #155) he describes the dinner room and on page 105-106 (PDF 156-157) some food and drink, e.g. frozen "serobet".

On the title page, one reads: "Guillaume Postel Cosmopolite, deux fois de la retourné et veritablement informé" (Guillaume Postel, cosmopolite, who has been there two times and who really knows about what he writes)

It seems that Postel wrote two other works on Turkey, but so far I did not find them online.

(Back to lurking.)

E.