[Sca-cooks] Table condiments

[Antonia di Benedetto Calvo]

On 14/11/2016 3:05 PM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> The table in many Arabic-speaking countries differed from greatly from the Ottoman table. It was apparently common to have a dish with salt, pepper, and cinnamon on the table - according to Ziryab, who was exiled from the 'Abbasid capital of Baghdad and moved to al-Andalus. He derided the local Andalusi custom of a dish with salt, pepper, and cumin, which he considered coarse.
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> I do not have enough information on the SCA period Persian table.
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  I don't have the book to hand, but Annals of the Caliph's Kitchen has 
several recipes for seasoned salts (basically, mixtures of salt, spices, 
sesame seeds, and so forth).

Antonia