[Sca-cooks] Food of the Arabian Nights was Odd Question

[David Friedman]

On 5/15/14 6:17 AM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> ...

> On p. 134 he quotes Burton: "Wail for the little partridges on 
> porringer and plate; cry for the ruin of fries and stew well marinate."
The examples you are giving involve an additional issue, aside from 
ignorance of the cuisine. Burton is doing verse translation, which means 
he has to find words that fit the rhyme and meter he is using. So he 
isn't simply guessing, he's picking food descriptions that work for the 
poem, not necessarily the ones he would be using as best guesses in a 
prose translation.

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