[Sca-cooks] Mughal Feast

[Nazirah Garrison]

Thank you, Urtatim!  If I can find Fragner's original article, I certainly
don't mind translating (unless you would be willing to share your
translations?).  I do see that a translation of the Nurollah book is
forthcoming:
http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/Dining%20at%20the%20Safavid%20Court but
not due till next year -- such a tease!

Sara

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 8:05 PM, <lilinah at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Sara wrote:
> > Madhavi, do you have any recommended references for the late period
> Persian
> > stuff you refer to, please?
>
> I'm not Madhavi, obviously, and i don't know what sources she used.
>
> Many dishes in other cookbooks have Persian names. There is very limited
> information, however, about actual Persian food. There two 16th c. Safavid
> Persian cookbooks - one from 1521 written Ba'urchi Bavarchi, chef to a high
> noble; the other from 1594, written by Nūr-Allāh (also written Nurollah),
> chef to Shah Abbas I - neither of which has been translated fully.
>
> Austrian scholar Bert Fragner, in a lengthy article about Iranian food,
> translated 2 sections of the 1594 cookbook, and i translated his
> translation, so i have 66 recipes, all for rice dishes. They are, as so
> many SCA-period recipes, quite scant in their directions and vague in
> quantities.
>
> I've cooked several of them and taught them at both the West Coast
> Culinary Symposium and at Pennsic and they dishes were delicious.
>
> Urtatim al-Qurtubiyya
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