[Sca-cooks] Mughal Feast

[Nazirah Garrison]

Madhavi, do you have any recommended references for the late period Persian
stuff you refer to, please?

Sara

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote:

> Should you be interested, there is a description of a feast given by Asaph
> Khan for Ambassador Thomas Roe in 1617 to be found in Edward Terry's A
> Voyage to East-India.  The description contains the first reference to
> potatoes in India.  There is some academic argument as to whether these
> were yams or sweet potatoes.  I tend to think Terry knew what he was
> talking about and that he was referring to a dark red sweet potato that is
> grown on the Deccan Plateau.
>
> Bear
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