What Indeed Was Bunk?

Authors

  • Charles Perry Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27817

Keywords:

bunk, Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh, 10th-century Baghdad, arabic, etiquette, hygiene, translation

Abstract

The author offers an alternative interpretation to that advanced in PPC 120 concerning the correct translation of the word 'bunk' a word which occurs in the tenth-century Baghdad cookbook Kitab al-Tabikh.

Author Biography

  • Charles Perry, Independent Scholar

    Charles Perry is a journalist and food historian, particularly of the Islamic world. His Medieval Arab Cookery is published by Prospect Books and his translation A Baghdad Cookery Book was published as PPC 79.

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Published

2021-11-01

Issue

PPC 121 (2021)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Perry, Charles. 2021. “What Indeed Was Bunk?”. Petits Propos Culinaires, November, 110-13. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27817.