[Sca-cooks] Book Question

[Ursula Whitcher]

> Part Two consists of 143 recipes from four sources, three not yet
> available in English, one only recently available - "Annals of the
> Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyar Al-warraq's Tenth-century Baghdadi
> Cookbook" (Islamic History and Civilization) by Nawal Nasrallah.
> Zaouali includes 24 recipes from this vast source, which i assume she
> translated herself.
> While not the masterwork of scholarship that "Annals of the Caliphs'
> Kitchens" is, Zaouali's book also does not cost $195, but merely
> $24.95. And it is definitely useful for the SCAdian cook, especially
> since it includes recipes not in any other book."

Several of the recipes in Zaouali's book are in my standard
medieval-food rotation now (including medieval hummus with salted
lemon and feta pies).

--Ursula Georges.