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From the same source, some wonderful food porn:


The 10th-Century Master Chef Who Wrote Food Poetry

His verses offer a glimpse into the good life during the Islamic Golden Age.

by Fehmida Zakeer October 12, 2023









The 13th-century Palmer Cup, in the British museum, is decorated with a line of Kushajim's poetry about wine. Johnbod/CC BY-SA 4.0









Kushajim, the 10th-century polymath, poet, and master chef, once described a certain snack in verse:

I have for friends when hunger strikes, qata’if, like piles of books stacked.
They resemble honeycombs—with holes and white—when closely seen.
Swimming in almond oil, disgorged after they had their fill of it.
With glistening bubbles, back and forth, rose water sways......

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