Written nearly a thousand years ago, al-Warraq's cookbook is the most comprehensive work of its kind. This traditional cookbook with more than 600 recipes from the luxurious cuisine of medieval Islam
In Dates, Nawal Nasrallah draws on her experience of growing up in the lands of ancient Mesopotamia, where the date palm was first cultivated, to explore the history behind the fruit. Dates have an im
The fourteenth-century Egyptian cookbook, Kanz al-fawa?id fi tanwi? al-mawa?id, is a treasure trove of 830 recipes of dishes, digestives, refreshing beverages, and more. Here, for the first time, it h
Along with the scholastic value of this translation, which is considerable, readers have the added pleasure of learning social conditions, etiquette and conventions, and the place of food in a complex
