A Soup for the Qan

Download or read book A Soup for the Qan written by Husihui and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 14th century, a court nutritionist called Hu Sihui wrote his "Yinshan Zhengyao," a dietary and nutritional manual for the Chinese Mongol Empire. Hu Sihui, a man apparently with a Turkic linguistic background, included recipes, descriptions of food items, and dietary medical lore including selections from ancient texts, and thus reveals to us the full extent of an amazing cross-cultural dietary; here recipes can be found from as far as Arabia, Iran, India and elsewhere, next to those of course from Mongolia and China. Although the medical theories are largely Chinese, they clearly show Near Eastern and Central Asian influence. This long-awaited expanded and revised edition of the much-acclaimed "A Soup for the Qan" sheds (yet) new light on our knowledge of west Asian influence on China during the medieval period, and on the Mongol Empire in general.