[Sca-cooks] Mughal Feast

[Nazirah Garrison]

The "evolved" Nimatnama stuff is things I'm familiar with due to a Gujarati
Muslim heritage! :) I had noticed a lot of similarities. I've noticed
similarities between the Ain i Akbari stuff and a lot of Persian stuff, and
I understand the relationship there.

I think my biggest issue in rounding out the Mughal feast really is "how to
put the ingredients together", and to a lesser extent, divorcing the dishes
named in the Ain i Akbari from my own cultural "this is what this is" bias.
There's plenty enough within the Ain i Akbari to  do a lot,  imo.

I'm thinking research and piecing everything together is in order!
On Aug 27, 2016 12:06, "Jim and Andi" <jimandandi at cox.net> wrote:

> The Nimatnama is roughly 100 years earlier than the Ain I Akbari. The Delhi
> court in which the Nimatnama was written produced a different fusion
> cuisine
> than the later Mughals- the Nimatnama was written after a much lengthier
> time of cultural mixing, plus both the Muslims came from a different place
> with a different "home" cuisine, and the regions of India are different
> with
> their own cuisines too. Mughal cuisine survived mostly in Rajasthan around
> Delhi,  while the dishes from the Nimatnama can be found in their evolved
> forms in Gujarat and Maharashtra- and Afghanistan, weirdly enough.
>
> I love the Nimatnama manuscript- I've done one feast out of it and I'm
> hopefully doing another this winter. There are hundreds of dishes and even
> more importantly, detailed descriptions of *how the cuisine works*. I'm
> testing an outdoor kitchen idea this weekend based directly on the
> paintings
> of the Nimatnama.
>
> If you really need more dishes to finish your feast than can be found in
> the
> Ain-I-Akbari, I personally would look to mid-to-late 16th century Persian
> cuisine to round out a Mughal feast.
>
> Madhavi
>
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> Yeah,  my first line of attack has been the /Ain i Akbari/ ingredients
> lists, and figuring out recipes based on what I know of period cooking
> techniques in the region, and resorting, when needed, to modern
> "traditional" techniques. Everything I have right now is "plausibly period"
> with justifications.  I never thought to combine it with the /Nimatnama/
> recipes, but that seems like it should be the logical next step.
> On Aug 26, 2016 23:37, "David Friedman" <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com> wrote:
>
> > I assume you've tried working from the /Ain i Akbari/. Figuring out
> > what the recipes are, with an ingredient list but no instructions, is a
> pain.
> > Have you tried combining it with the /Nimatnama/, finding in the
> > latter dishes in the former, thus giving you a recipe plus ingredient
> quantities?
> > I haven't, don't know if it would work.
> >
> >
> > On 8/26/16 8:24 PM, Nazirah Garrison wrote:
> >
> >> Those are indeed what I'm using, at least as primary sources.
> >> There's a couple of secondary sources that I can't remember off the
> >> top of my head (and I'm not home right now to check names), but I
> >> know that at least one of them is less rigorous than I'd like!
> >>
> >> Sara
> >> On Aug 26, 2016 14:45, "David Friedman" <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> /Ain i Akbari /and the /Nimatnama/? Or do you have other sources?
> >>>
> >>> The /Nimatnama/ is not actually Mughal, but it's only a little
> >>> earlier than the Mughals, so plausibly the same cuisine.
> >>>
> >>> On 8/25/16 8:42 AM, Nazirah Garrison wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm girding loins and gathering strength for the documented Mughal
> >>> feast
> >>>> I'm doing in December.  To say I'm a little nervous is an
> >>>> understatement!
> >>>>
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