Food sweets, specifically plays an important part inThe 1001 Arabian Nights; it is currency, temptation, sustenance. Delicious sweets are the link between that historical work and this modern one. The Sweets of Araby offers us exotic treats and the translated tales they come from. Sisters Leila Salloum Elias and Muna Salloum worked with the ancient Arabic text of The 1001 Arabian Nights to find recipes and translate their stories, literally bringing back to life evocative stories with recipes transformed to suit modern kitchens and tastes. Beautifully illustrated...
Food sweets, specifically plays an important part inThe 1001 Arabian Nights; it is currency, temptation, sustenance. Delicious sweets are the...
The author of the thirteenth-century Arabic cookbook "Kit b al- abīkh" proposed that food was among the foremost pleasures in life. "Scheherazade's Feasts" invites adventurous cooks to test this hypothesis.
From the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, the influence and power of the medieval Islamic world stretched from the Middle East to the Iberian Peninsula, and this Golden Age gave rise to great innovation in gastronomy no less than in science, philosophy, and literature. The medieval Arab culinary empire was vast and varied: with trade and conquest came riches, abundance, new...
The author of the thirteenth-century Arabic cookbook "Kit b al- abīkh" proposed that food was among the foremost pleasures in life. "Scheheraza...
