: Completed just decades before the fall of Baghdad, this version was long the only one known to the Western world. It focuses on the "opulence" of Baghdad's elite, featuring 160 original recipes (later expanded by transcribers) divided into 10 chapters covering everything from sour dishes to sweets like halwa .
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