[Sca-cooks] Sixteenth Century Turkish
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Tue Apr 6 17:37:24 PDT 2010
I found illustrations of Ottoman sugar works and sugar garden parades
several years
back when working on a subtletie. The really great Geocities site is
gone alas, but there's this one which features the early 18th century
miniatures
http://www.kanyak.com/surname-i-vehbi/index.html
It seems to feature most of what the former site did.
There's also this essay at the same site:
The Imperial Procession: Recreating a world's order
Stephane Yerasimos
It details the early history of the processions.
There's also material at:
http://www.turkish-cuisine.org/english/index.php
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Readers might also like a number of the articles at Muslimheritage.com
I came across these today:
http://www.muslimheritage.org/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=1101
http://MuslimHeritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=696
Johnna
On Apr 6, 2010, at 2:14 PM, emilio szabo wrote:
> On page 472, you will also find a quotation about sugar work:
>
> "... das zuckerwerck/ so auff mancherley Art der Thier/ Voegl/ etc.
> geformiert ist gewesen ... vnnd ein stueck einer Elln vnnd hoeher
> gewesen"
>
> the creations made of sugar that had the form of various kinds of
> animals and birds [follows a list] ... and each sugarwork was one
> (Elle) high and even higher.
>
> (I am not sure what was the measure of an Elle in those days.)
>
> Thanks again,
>
> E.
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