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A Baghdad cookery book : the book of dishes (Kitāb al-ṭabīkh) / Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. al-Karīm ; newly translated by Charles Perry.
Van Pelt Library TX725.S9 I213 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ibn al-Karīm, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1184 or 1185-1239 or 1240.
- Standardized Title:
- Kitāb al-ṭabīkh. English
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, Syrian.
- Cooking, Arab--Early works to 1800--Translations into English.
- Cooking, Arab.
- Food habits--Middle East--History.
- Food habits.
- History.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages ; 19 cm
- Other Title:
- Book of dishes
- Place of Publication:
- Totnes : Prospect Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- Al-Baghdadi's Kitab al-Tabikh was for long the only medieval Arabic Cookery book known to the English-speaking world, thanks to A J Arberry's path-breaking 1939 translation, reissued by Prospect Books in 2001 in Medieval Arab Cookery. For centuries, it has been the favourite Arab cookery book of the Turks. The original manuscript is still in Istanbul, and at some point a Turkish sultan commissioned a very handsome copy which can still be seen in The British Library in London. Charles Perry has re-visited the manuscript and discovered many possible errors and amendments that affect the interpretation of these essential recipes for the understanding of medieval Arab cookery. He has produced a new English translation incorporating these ammendments and fully annotating his variations with the 'authorised' version. Scholars will now have a definitive text in an inexpensive and handy format.
- Notes:
- Special issue of the journal Petits propos culinaires, ISSN 0142-4857, PPC 79.
- ISBN:
- 1903018420
- OCLC:
- 62345047
- Publisher Number:
- 9781903018422
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