[Sca-cooks] Ingredient Puzzles in al-Warraq

[Johnna Holloway]

That PPC critique offers a number of possibilities as to differences in translations and ingredients in the early Islamic manuscripts.

https://prospectbooks.co.uk/samples/Baghdad-critique.pdf

I am sure that Charles Perry might have some differences of opinions and since he is supposed to be there….

Johnna

On Sep 11, 2013, at 2:27 PM, David Friedman wrote:

> I've been thinking about what I could offer to teach at the next West Coast culinary symposium, and it occurred to me that one possibility would be the ingredient puzzles in al-Warraq and my attempts to solve them. I have two so far--baker's borax and samidh flour. What are they?
> Are there other interesting puzzles along those lines that people have come across? Evidence to help solve them?