Sweet Delights from a Thousand and One Nights: The Story of Traditional Arab Sweets

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London: I.B. Tauris, 2013Description: xviii, 254 p.. color ill.; 25 cmISBN:

9781780764641

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Contents:

Basic recipes -- Pastries -- Cookies -- Cakes and pies -- Candies -- Puddings and other sweet delights

Summary: "Bringing together tenth- to fourteenth-century Arabic texts, the authors retrace the history of these sweet dishes, reviving the original recipes and following their development and influence over the centuries into non-Arabic speaking lands. Honey, dates, figs and pomegranates are just a few ingredients featured in this exquisite selection of mouth-watering desserts which have been modernised for cooks to try at home, all woven together with medieval poems and stories"--Publisher's website.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) Library Main Library - 0.01	G 817 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		G 817

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index.

Basic recipes -- Pastries -- Cookies -- Cakes and pies -- Candies -- Puddings and other sweet delights

"Bringing together tenth- to fourteenth-century Arabic texts, the authors retrace the history of these sweet dishes, reviving the original recipes and following their development and influence over the centuries into non-Arabic speaking lands. Honey, dates, figs and pomegranates are just a few ingredients featured in this exquisite selection of mouth-watering desserts which have been modernised for cooks to try at home, all woven together with medieval poems and stories"--Publisher's website.

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