Scheherazade's Feasts: Foods of the Medieval Arab World

by Habeeb Salloum, Muna Salloum, Leila Salloum Elias

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 hy…