Scheherazade's Feasts: Foods of the Medieval Arab World

by Habeeb Salloum, Leila Salloum Elias, Muna Salloum

Book Overview

The author of the thirteenth-century Arabic cookbook Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224493
• ISBN13: 9780812224498
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.9" x 8.7"