[Sca-cooks] Delights From The Garden of Eden

[David Friedman]

On the other hand... .

In her translation of al-Warraq, she identifies one of the kinds of 
beans mentioned as kidney beans, which according to other sources I have 
seen are New World. So I am a little concerned that she may be too 
willing to assume that knowledge of current practice can be projected 
back to period practice.

Of course, knowledge of current practice can be highly informative when 
we don't have other sources of information, as in her comment on 
sweating meat.



On 4/24/13 12:25 PM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> Juana Isabella wrote:
>> I received a mailer the other day regarding a book called "Delights From the Garden of
>> Eden" by Nawal Nasrallah. It purports to be a cookbook and history of Iraqi cuisine.
>>
>> Is anyone here familiar with it? Is it a useful source?
> Glad to hear the new edition is finally out! To the best of my knowledge, this was her first book published in the US, in 2003.
>
> Nawal Nasrallah is actually Iraqi and a food historian, so she knows the subject. She is the translator of Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's Kitab al-Tabikh, an early 10th c. compendium of recipes from 9th and 10th c. cookbooks, with chapters on proper table manners, appropriate conversation, the humors, hand cleansing before and after meals, etc. Nasrallah added an expansive glossary as well as information about everyone mentioned in the original text. It was published by Brill, scholarly publishers, as "Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyar al- Warraq's Tenth-century Baghdadi Cookbook" in 2007.
>
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