A Baghdad cookery book
Subtitle: the book of dishes (Kitāb al-ṭabīkh)
By: Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. al-Karīm ; newly translated by Charles Perry.
Contributors: Perry, Charles, 1941-
Publisher: Prospect Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Totnes
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781903018422
Subjects: Cookery, Syrian.; Cookery, Arab -- Early works to 1800 -- Translations into English.; Food habits -- Middle East -- History.
Genres: Early works to 1800; Translations into English.
Other titles: Book of dishes; Petits propos culinaires.
Work titles: Kitāb al-ṭabīkh.
Description: "This special issue of Petits Propos Culinaires is wholly devoted to a new translation of the text called, for convenience' sake, A Baghdad Cookery Book, that is, The Book of Dishes (Kitab al-Tabikh) by Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Muhammad b. al-Karim, the scribe of Baghdad, usually called Al Baghdadi. This thirteenth-century text was for a long while the only medieval Arab manuscript available in English thanks to the translation, in the 1930s, by A.J. Arberry which was subsequently re-published by Prospect Books in 2001 in Medieval Arab Cookery. In this new translation Charles Perry corrects many errors and misreadings that had crept into early transcriptions. Here we have spread before us, as if on a glorious sideboard, the immense wealth and ingenuity of cooking in the golden age of Arab civilisation. We can detect the influence of Persia, as well as echoes of the Bedouin life, and even the mark of the infidel Christian crusaders."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Special issue of the journal Petits propos culinaires, ISSN 0142-4857, PPC 79.