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Download e-book for iPad: Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World: A Concise History by Lilia Zaouali

By Lilia Zaouali

ISBN-10: 0520247833

ISBN-13: 9780520247833

Translated through M. B. DeBevoise, foreword by way of Charles Perry

Vinegar and sugar, dried fruit, rose water, spices from India and China, candy wine made of raisins and dates—these are the flavors of the golden age of Arab delicacies. This e-book, a pleasant culinary experience that's half historical past and half cookbook, surveys the gastronomical artwork that constructed on the Caliph's luxurious palaces in ninth-and tenth-century Baghdad, drew concept from Persian, Greco-Roman, and Turkish cooking, and swiftly unfold around the Mediterranean. In an enthralling narrative, Lilia Zaouali brings to lifestyles Islam's shiny culinary heritage.

The moment 1/2 the booklet gathers an intensive number of unique recipes drawn from medieval culinary assets in addition to thirty-one modern recipes that evoke the flavors of the center a long time. that includes dishes comparable to fowl with Walnuts and Pomegranate, red meat with Pistachios, Bazergan Couscous, Lamb Stew with clean Apricots, Tuna and Eggplant Purée with Vinegar and Caraway, and crammed Dates, the publication additionally discusses themes comparable to cookware, utensils, fragrant ingredients, and condiments, making it either an pleasing learn and an informative source for someone who enjoys the wonderful artwork of cooking.

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40 There were always those in favor and those against,as numerous medieval writings on the subject attest;nevertheless,support for the anti-alcohol position grew in the aftermath of the Crusades in the Middle East and the Almohad conquest in the Maghreb and Andalusia. This is evidence that a tradition of sociable behavior was openly perpetuated in the tenth and eleventh centuries. It is clear that the state of drunkenness was considered shameful. For this reason Ibn Sayyar insisted on respect for certain rules of decency, in order to avoid objectionable conduct: 32 / Crossroads of the World’s Cuisines The nadim [boon companion] who drinks with the king must occupy the place that has been assigned to him, without seeking to put himself in a higher or lower position; he must not lie down, but rather hold himself in an upright position.

During the rest of the year Muslims are free to eat as they please, to consume anything they desire, within the limits of the law, at any time of day. There are no meatless Fridays, nor any Sabbath meal, nor any other special regime. Compared to the dietary rules obeyed by Christians and Jews during the time of the Prophet, the Muslim prescriptions must have seemed a gift from heaven. To be sure, pork was strictly prohibited; but is it likely that pigs were ever raised by the Hijaz Arabs? In this part of the world,animals can be raised at all only by transhumance (the seasonal migration of animals and their herders between lowlands and adjacent mountains).

995) gives us an exhaustive list of the authors of cooking manuals in Arabic, which for the most part have the same title,Kitab al-tabikh. Of these the first is the work by Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi (779–839), half-brother of Caliph Harun al-Rashid and himself caliph for two years. According to Ibn Crossroads of the World’s Cuisines / 9 al-Nadim, many ^Abbasid caliphs, among them al-Ma\mun (d. 892),were keenly interested in cooking and intervened directly in the confection of certain dishes—a surprising hereditary passion, crowned by the work of Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi, that was nonetheless characteristic of a madly passionate age.

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