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A Baghdad Cookery Book: The Book of Dishes
Kitab al-Tabikh

Newly translated by Charles Perry

Published by Prospect Books

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From the publisher:

This 13th Century text was for a long while the only medieval Arab cookery manuscript available in English thenks to the translation in the 1930s, by A J Arberry. In this new translation Charles Perry corrects many errtors and misreadings that had crept into early translations. 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 ...