Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq
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Abu Muhammad al-Muzaffar ibn Nasr ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq of Baghdad was the author of a tenth-century cookbook, al-Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ (Arabic: الكتاب الطبيخ, The Book of Dishes). This is the earliest known Arabic cookbook.
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- Nawal Nasrallah (translator), Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's Tenth-century Baghdadi Cookbook, Brill, 2007. ISBN 9004158677
- Kaj Öhrnberg and Sahban Mroueh, eds., Kitab al-tabikh Studia orientalia 60, Finnish Oriental Society, 1987. ISBN 9519380043