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Journal Article
Medicine, Magic, Alchemy, Food, and Ink
2023
Overview
The Cairo geniza preserved hundreds of recipes But before you envision piles of variants on mulukbiyya and other medieval Egyptian dishes to impress your guests and solve your dinner dilemmas, consider this: roughly 68 percent of those recipes are likely to be medical prescriptions. Take, for example, a recipe written by that most famous of medieval physicians, Moses Maimonides, who spent the last forty years of his life in Cairo as leader and congregant in the synagogue where the geniza was preserved. In 2014, Amir Ashur discovered a prescription in Maimonides' hand for a dietary regimen, presumably to help someone with a digestive ailment. The recipe: a concoction of sugar, warm water, and the juice of two lemons. The goal: making the patient vomit. Lukewarm lemonade didn't sound so bad to me. But when I asked my resident eleven-year-old what she thought of it, her verdict \"was unequivocal. Translated into printable language: nauseating.
