[Sca-cooks] Mughal Feast

[Johnna Holloway]

Try these

"Articles mentioning medieval Persian cookery books:
 
Fragner, Bert G. “Zur Erforschung Der Kulinarischen Kultur Irans.” Die Welt des Islams. 23:1, pp. 320 – 360. Available through Jstor and Brill Online. Includes material on pulaos.
 

Ghanoonparvar, Mohammad R. “Cookbooks.” Encyclopaedia Iranica. 1993. Vol. VI, Fasc. 3, pp. 243-244 http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/cookbooks-classical-in-persian "

 FROM AN ENTRY IN MY BIBLIOGRAPHY.


Johnnae

On Aug 28, 2016, at 10:26 PM, Nazirah Garrison <nazirah.garrison at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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