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A Baghdad cookery book : the book of dishes (Kitāb al-ṭabīkh)

Ibn al-Karīm, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1184 or 1185-1239 or 1240.

Synopsis:

This is Charles Perry's new translation of an ancient classic cookbook, which was well known as the only medieval book in English on Arab cookery.

At the Culinary Historians of Southern California meeting, January 11, 2014, Charles Perry presented "A Feast for the Nose:  Perfuming the Banquet in Old Damascus."