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Odalisques, sultans, palaces, riches, battles and magical rugs seduce hearts and minds from immemorial times. This almost dreamlike imagery populates the representations of what is conventionally called the Orient and hits one of its highest points in the book One Thousand and One Nights. Mesmerized by this fascination, the researcher Rosa Belluzzo makes an invitation to a journey towards this fantastic world: in 'A Thousand and One Nights, a thousand and one delicacies' a robust historical research walks alongside traditional recipes of Arab cuisine with beautiful illustrations and engravings that would make the most nabbish banquet jealous.

“This heady gastronomic panorama deserves attention for contributing to the sensual awakening of the tales of One Thousand and One Nights“, the author notes. Faithful to this diagnosis, throughout ten chapters, as Sherazade entangles the sultan with her narrative ability, Rosa Belluzzo carries the readers to the historical East in a fantastic textual construction: at times she speaks of history, sometimes she introduces excerpts from the Thousand and One Nights in vivid descriptions. At the end, a list with recipes, ingredients and preparation methods honor the thousand and one delicaciesdelicacies mentioned in the title.