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A Baghdad Cookery Book
Muhammad bin al-Hasan al-Baghdadi
This is a translation of the Kitâb al Tabîkh, composed by a thirteenth-century scribe we usually call al-Baghdadi. It was long the only medieval Arabic cookery book known to the English-speaking world, thanks to A.J.Arberry’s path-breaking 1939 translation as ‘A Baghdad Cookery Book’ (re...