[Sca-cooks] 16th c. Persian Safavid cookbooks

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Today while searching for a completely trivial cosmetic product, i 
turned up my photocopy of the book published in Tehran in the late 
20th c. containing transcriptions of the two 16th c. Safavid 
cookbooks. Huzzah! As i do not read Persian (although i have a hefty 
modern Persian dictionary to play with), i cannot tell if they are in 
16th c. Persian, modern Persian, or both.

Thanks to the 1984 scholarly article by Bert Fragner i translated 
from German, coupled with my slight knowledge of Arabic numerals from 
my studies of the Arabic language, i know which pages each of the two 
books is on.

More than one person on this list has offered to attempt a bit of 
translation - at the very least through co-workers Iranian in origin. 
Thank you for your past offers of help! If those people would contact 
me off list, i will see about scanning some test pages and sending 
them to you.

And here's looking forward to some recipes beyond the 66 mostly meaty 
rice polaw recipes i translated from German into English, as tasty as 
the ones i have cooked have been. I want some vegetables, dammit!  :-)
-- 
Urtatim [that's err-tah-TEEM]
the persona formerly known as Anahita