[Sca-cooks] Medieval Indian food

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Recipes are promised in future installments:

'Two Culinary works from Medieval Ujjaini
The N’imatnama Manuscript  of the Sultan Ghiyath Shahi of Mandu (1469 AD to 
1500 AD) and Kshemakuthuhalam  by Kshema Sarma are two wonderful medieval 
culinary manuscripts of this  region.  The N’imatnama or Book of Delights 
consists of recipes for food  and drink, for the distillation and preparation 
of perfumes and essences, and  also for aphrodisiacs and remedies for 
illnesses. Written in a mix of Urdu and  Farsi the book also contains fifty 
miniature paintings depicting Sultan Ghiyath  Shahi, his companions, slaves, cooks, 
and attendants either preparing a dish or  betel leaves or perfumes or 
going hunting. After Akbar’s defeat of Sultan of  Mandu the manuscript was in 
the possion of the Mughal library (indicated by an  inscription on one folio 
and a Mughal period seal) and later at the library of  Tippoo Sultan of 
Mysore before reaching the India office collection of the  British  Library."
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Jim  Chevallier
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A History of Coffee and Other Refreshments  in Early Modern France 
by Pierre Le Grand d'Aussy