Research Catalog

Title

The sultan's feast : a fifteenth-century Egyptian cookbook / Ibn Mubārak Shāh ; edited, translated and introduced by Daniel L. Newman.

Author

Shāh, Ibn Mubārak

Publication

• London : SAQI Books, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Newman, Daniel L.

Description

lxiv, 149, 138 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The Arabic culinary tradition burst onto the scene in the middle of the tenth century, when al Warraq compiled a culinary treatise titled al Kitab al Tabikh (The Book of Dishes), containing over 600 recipes. However, it would take another ten centuries for cookery books to be produced in the European continent. For centuries to come, gastronomic writing would remain the sole preserve of the Arab-Muslim world, with cooking manuals and recipe books being produced from Baghdad, Aleppo and Egypt in the East, to Muslim Spain, Morocco and Tunisia in the West. A total of nine complete cookery books have survived from this time, containing a total of nearly four thousand recipes. The Sultan's Feast by the Egyptian Ibn Mubarak Shah in the fifteenth century is one such book. Reflecting the importance of gastronomy in Arab culture, this culinary treatise features more than 330 recipes, from bread-making and omelettes, to sweets, pickling and aromatics, and tips on a range of topics, from essentials a cook should know to how to distil drinkable water. Available in English for the first time, this critical bilingual volume offers a sophisticated insight into the world of medieval Arabic gastronomic writing.

Subject

• Cooking, Egyptian > Early works to 1800
• Cooking, Arab > Early works to 1800
• Cooking, Medieval > Egypt > Sources
• Cooking, Medieval
• Cooking, Arab
• Cooking, Egyptian
• Egypt

Genre/Form

• Sources.
• Early works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• English and Arabic.

Contents

The book of flowers in the garden of elegant foods. Useful things that a cook should know -- Bread making -- On drinking water -- On dishes -- On making Murrī -- On making omelettes and other things -- On counterfeit dishes -- Fish -- Sweets -- On beverages like Fuqqā ̀and Sūbiyya -- On making mustard -- Sauces -- On dairy dishes -- On pickles -- On storing fruits and keeping them when they are out of season -- Dishes -- On making cold dishes -- On toothpicks -- On fragrances.

Call Number

JFE 21-6428

ISBN

• 9780863561566
• 086356156X

LCCN

99986383281

OCLC

1225073752

Author

Shāh, Ibn Mubārak, author.

Title

The sultan's feast : a fifteenth-century Egyptian cookbook / Ibn Mubārak Shāh ; edited, translated and introduced by Daniel L. Newman.

Publisher

London : SAQI Books, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

English and Arabic.

Added Author

Newman, Daniel L., editor, translator, writer of introduction.

Other Form:

Ebook version : 9780863561818

Other Standard Identifier

99986383281

Research Call Number

JFE 21-6428