The Arabic culinary tradition burst onto the scene in the middle of the tenth century, when al-Warrāq compiled a culinary treatise titled al-Kitab al-Tabikh (T

"Not to be missed…a gem. This is real Old World cooking…devotees of Mediterranean cuisine would be remiss not to add this book to their collection."--Boston

"There is only one known copy of the Sultan's Book of Delights in existence and it is held in the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library (

Count Saint-Germain, here known as Sanat Ji Mani, is caught in Tamerlane's invasion of India in the fourteenth century.

Princess Nicolette Ducasse refused to let her sister marry SultanMalik Roman Nuri of Baraka. So she traveled to his faraway kingdom totell him the wedding was o