With a foreword by Claudia Roden. Readers of Claudia Roden's
masterworks have long been aware of the continuities in Middle Eastern
cookery, others have been tantalized by the influence of Islamic cooking on
the medieval West, all will rejoice in this new gathering of papers and
documents relating to medieval Arab food and cookery. The French scholar,
Maxime Rodinson's contributions are legendary, yet have only been seen...