[Sca-cooks] Recipe Translations

[David Friedman]

On the subject of translations, one point that struck me about 
Nasrullah's al-Warraq translation--I'm not sure if I've mentioned it 
here or not.

She routinely translates "uqiya" as ounce, without explaining that the 
pound (ratl) has twelve ounces, like the troy pound, not the sixteen 
that most readers will assume. So her translation is correct, but 
misleading.

-- 
David/Cariadoc
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