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<DIV>I have never suggested modern cookbooks, so that's a lie. I was just trying to help by pointing out a few possibilities. If someone wants to find out about a culture, it is often advisable to start with the modern equivalent and work backward. Want to find out about 15th c. Indian cooking? Best to contact Indian historians.</DIV>
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<DIV>It seemed like a casual initial question, so I provided a few casual suggestions. I spent a few minutes looking, trying to help.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: lilinah@earthlink.net<BR>To: sca-cooks@ansteorra.org<BR>Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2006 1:07:31 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Moghul Food<BR><BR>
<DIV>Duriel wrote:<BR>> >Not 'Mongol'...'Moghul'. Persia/Afghanistan/India. Lots of<BR>> >cookbooks from there.<BR><BR>I had responded:<BR>>There are no SCA-period Afghan cookbooks that i know of, and only a<BR>>couple Indian ones. Other than the Ni'matnama, which has both Persian<BR>>and Indian qualities, i've heard rumors of a surviving Persian<BR>>cookbook, but if that's true, it hasn't been translated into any<BR>>Western European language to the best of my knowledge.<BR><BR>Duriel then answered:<BR>>Here's a site with all sorts of relevant content.<BR>><A href="http://home.earthlink.net/~lilinah/links-ME-cuisine.html" target=_blank>http://home.earthlink.net/~lilinah/links-ME-cuisine.html</A><BR><BR>There's actually very little relevant content on this page.<BR><BR>There are no links on this page (which happens to be mine :-) to <BR>SCA-period Afghan or Persian recipes.<BR><BR>The only relevant
link to Moghul Indian food is to the several <BR>recipes Duke Cariadoc worked out from the work Ain-i-Akbari, already <BR>mentioned previously in this thread.<BR><BR>>and another for Indian research<BR>><A href="http://www.sonoma.edu/rpdc/nbisp/india/iresources.html" target=_blank>http://www.sonoma.edu/rpdc/nbisp/india/iresources.html</A><BR><BR>I don't much of anything about pre-17th century Moghul cooking on this page.<BR><BR>>Maybe contacting some Indian people would help.<BR><BR>They would need to be scholars of food history from before 1601, and <BR>they're pretty rare, since most Indians, like most American and <BR>Europeans, don't know much about food from over 400 years ago.<BR><BR>It seems to me that you continue to suggest we look at modern <BR>cookbooks, which are almost always not relevant, when threads concern <BR>SCA-period historical cooking. I've got plenty of Persian, Afghan, <BR>and Indian cookbooks on my shelves, and most are modern and not
<BR>relevant to the topic.<BR><BR>We do sometimes talk about modern food (ah, the old "Lutheran binder" <BR>thread), when such would be relevant. But you recommend modern stuff <BR>in threads on historic cooking. Like to see your name in glowing <BR>electrons?<BR>-- <BR>Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)<BR>the persona formerly known as Anahita<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Sca-cooks mailing list<BR>Sca-cooks@lists.ansteorra.org<BR><A href="http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org" target=_blank>http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org</A></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></div></body></html>