[Sca-cooks] Mughal Feast

[Nazirah Garrison]

Thank you!

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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