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Baghdad Cookery Book - $19.95
Muhammad Ibn Al-Hasan Al-Baghdadi, newly translated by Charles Perry.
This book was for long the only medieval Arabic cookbook known to the English-speaking world, thanks to A. J. Arberry’s 1939 translation. Charles Perry, working from the original ms, has produced a new English translation incorporating many amendments and corrections, fully annotating his variations from Daoud Chelebi’s earlier transcription. 128p, Prospect Books

Life Along the Silk Road - $24.95
Susan Whitfield. Concentrates on the lives of 10 individuals during the period AD 750 - 1000, focusing heavily on China, but covering the area of the Silk Road. Although some of these people are historic, others are composites used to illustrate the lives of similar people during the period. Events are all taken from contemporary sources. Extensive index, Table of Rulers 739-960 (Frankish, Byzantine, Arab, Tibetan, Turkish/Uighur, Chinese). pb, 242pp, 8 pages color, 8 b/w illus. University of California Press.

Medieval Arab Cookery - $75.00
This long-awaited book contains papers by Maxime Rodinson & Charles Perry, as well as a reprint of A.J. Arberry's translation of "A Baghdad Cookery Book" [kitab al-Tibakhah, a 15th century cookbook.] Also includes Charles Perry's new translation of kitab Wasf al-At'ima al-Mu'tada. Foreword by Claudia Roden. 300pp. Prospect Books.

Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World - $18.95

New Food of Life - $44.95

Silk Road Cooking; a vegetarian journey - $35.00

A Taste of Persia: An Introduction to Persian Cooking - $19.95


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