[Sca-cooks] Odd Question

Daniel And elizabeth phelps dephelps at embarqmail.com
Sun May 11 11:29:13 PDT 2014


My remembrance is that the story has an imaginary feast where all the dishes are presented in a specific order.

Daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2014 1:29:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Odd Question

I don't see any single passage of this sort despite numerous evocative  
mentions of food:
 
The closest thing seems to be this poem in praise of a meal:
_http://books.google.com/books?id=NXa7TXBBsfwC&lpg=PA86&dq=inauthor%3Aburton
%20nights%20taste&pg=PA70#v=onepage&q=inauthor:burton%20nights%20taste&f=fal
se_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=NXa7TXBBsfwC&lpg=PA86&dq=inauthor:burton%20nights%20taste&pg=PA70#v=onepage&q=inauthor:burton%20nights%20taste&f=f
alse) 
 
There are brief comments on the tastes of fruit here:
_http://books.google.com/books?id=NXa7TXBBsfwC&lpg=PA86&dq=inauthor%3Aburton
%20nights%20taste&pg=PA86#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=NXa7TXBBsfwC&lpg=PA86&dq=inauthor:burton%20nights%20taste&pg=PA86#v=one
page&q&f=false) 
 

There is a whole riff on pomegranate seed sauces here:
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=NXa7TXBBsfwC&lpg=PA86&dq=inauthor%3Aburton
%20nights%20taste&pg=PA133#v=onepage&q=inauthor:burton%20nights%20taste&f=fa
lse_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=NXa7TXBBsfwC&lpg=PA86&dq=inauthor:burton%20nights%20taste&pg=PA133#v=onepage&q=inauthor:burton%20nights%20taste&f
=false) 
 
 
 
The Arabian Nights
By Richard F. Burton
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=NXa7TXBBsfwC&lpg=PA574&dq=inauthor%3Aburto
n%20nights%20rice&pg=PA345#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=NXa7TXBBsfwC&lpg=PA574&dq=inauthor:burton%20nights%20rice&pg=PA345#v=o
nepage&q&f=false) 
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=NXa7TXBBsfwC&lpg=PA633&dq=inauthor%3Aburto
n%20nights%20mutton&pg=PA339#v=onepage&q=894&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=NXa7TXBBsfwC&lpg=PA633&dq=inauthor:burton%20nights%20mutton&pg=P
A339#v=onepage&q=894&f=false) 
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=NXa7TXBBsfwC&lpg=PA633&dq=inauthor%3Aburto
n%20nights%20mutton&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q=inauthor:burton%20nights%20mutton&f=
false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=NXa7TXBBsfwC&lpg=PA633&dq=inauthor:burton%20nights%20mutton&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q=inauthor:burton%20nights%20mutt
on&f=false) 
 
 
Various lists of foods can be found here as well:
 
Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume  
6
By Sir Richard Francis Burton
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=W5IWAAAAYAAJ&dq=inauthor%3Aburton%20nights
%20meat&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q=inauthor:burton%20nights%20meat&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=W5IWAAAAYAAJ&dq=inauthor:burton%20nights%20meat&p
g=PA65#v=onepage&q=inauthor:burton%20nights%20meat&f=false) 
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=W5IWAAAAYAAJ&dq=inauthor%3Aburton%20nights
%20meat&pg=PA159#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=W5IWAAAAYAAJ&dq=inauthor:burton%20nights%20meat&pg=PA159#v=onepage&q&f=false) 
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=W5IWAAAAYAAJ&dq=inauthor%3Aburton%20nights
%20mutton&pg=PA216#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=W5IWAAAAYAAJ&dq=inauthor:burton%20nights%20mutton&pg=PA216#v=onepage&q&f=false
) 
 
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

Beyond Apicius (2):  recipes from other Roman sources
_http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/05/beyond-apicius-2-recipes-from-other.ht
ml_ 
(http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/04/beyond-wine-water-and-beer-what-else.html) 








In a message dated 5/11/2014 10:01:55 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
dephelps at embarqmail.com writes:

Within  the 1001 Nights there is a story that includes a detailed 
description of a  feast dish by dish plus a description of of how each should taste. 
I've the  Burton translation as well as two volumes of a later three volume 
translation.  Does anyone know where it can be found in the Burton  
translation
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