A historian and a chef go on a culinary journey via historical past to find the roots of Arab delicacies and its affect on the meals and flavours of at the moment. Kotoz Ahmed is a researcher in Arab meals historical past, and Fadi Kattan is a famend Palestinian chef.
They journey round Europe seeking recipe manuscripts from the times of the outdated Arab dynasties and empires. They begin this primary episode within the Finnish capital, Helsinki, the place they discover The E book of Dishes, the oldest recognized Arabic cookbook.
It describes ninth-century rivalries, together with a singer-musician referred to as Ziryab, who fell out of favour within the court docket in Baghdad and fled to Cordoba in Muslim al-Andalus. He introduced his data of music, the humanities, vogue, and cookery with him to Spain and is known for a stew referred to as Inexperienced Tafaya.
Kotoz revives the recipe and cooks it in a Twenty first-century kitchen, a millennium after it was first created.
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