[Sca-cooks] Sixteenth Century Turkish

[Johnna Holloway]

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.