Kitab al-Tabikh (al-Warraq's cookbook)
Kitab al-Tabikh (recetario de al-Warraq)
- Date
- c. 950 · confidence medium
- Place
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Credited to
- Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
A cookbook of the Abbasid court compiled in Baghdad, gathering over 600 recipes along with dietetics, table hygiene and kitchen lore. It is the oldest surviving Arabic cookbook.
Compiled around 950 from earlier works by cooks and caliphs (such as those of Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi), now lost.
What it led to
- the tradition of medieval Arab and Mediterranean cookbooks
- diffusion of sugar, spices and sweet-and-sour dishes to Europe
- basis of Andalusi cuisine (Kitab al-tabij)