Rachel Laudan

That’s a question I have been asked several times. In my Mexican Kitchen’s Islamic Connection I mention only the Mughals.
Yes, clearly there was. Muslims conquerers had begun entering India around 1200, 300 plus years before the Mughals. The traveler Al-Biruni describes (more or less accurately) meals at the sultans’ courts. The [...]

Here’s a call for papers on a great topic: what happened to the food of royal courts in nineteenth century Europe. As I see it, courts had been the centers of culinary innovation for centuries. They began to fade into insignificance in the nineteenth century. But not quickly or quietly. It should be a [...]