[oman-l] No Oman Cookbooks

[Joachim Duester]

> You can see more detail at www.amazon.com
> They showed nothing for Omani cooking. Is there a need?

Shame on amazon.com ! 

Checking for "food" in our library database, I find 
the following books on Omani cuisine (I excluded articles 
and out-of-print-material):

Dorr, Marcia S.
A taste of Oman: traditional Omani food - authentic recipes
and how to prepare them / written by Marcia Stegath Dorr. - 
Muttrah: Mazoon Printing Press, [1992]. . - [2], 16pp., R.O. 3.000
- [14 traditional Omani dishes plus halwa]

Parfitt, Joanna; Valentine, Susan
Dates = [Tumûr] / Joanna Parfitt and Susan Valentine. - Mina 
al-Fahal: MCBS Modern centre for Business Services, in 
association with Summertime Publishing, 1995 [printed by 
Ruwi Modern Colour Printers]. Distributed by United Media 
Services, POB 3305, Ruwi 112, Oman.  -
[mainly a cokery book with a wide ranges of recipes using 
Omani dates, bi-lingual in English and Arabic]

Röhl [Roehl], Anke
Oman: praktischer Reiseführer an die Ostküste Arabiens. - 
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Meyer Reiseführer, 1995. - 312pp. 
ISBN 3-922057-12-8 pb: DM 39.80
[Omani food and recipes on pp. 109-118]

al-Taie, Lamees Abdullah
Al-Azaf: the Omani cookbook / Lamees Abdulla al-Taie, translated 
by Nasser S. al Kindi [...]. - Ruwi: Oman Bookshop, 1995. 280pp.
R.O. 8.000
[Traditional Omani cuisine. - Includes 23 soups, 45 salads, 22 
vegetable dishes, 65 recipes for bread and cakes, 25 rice dishes, 
74 meat dishes, 32 chicken dishes, 77 fish dishes, 71 sweets, plus 
beverages, ...] Of course, also available in Arabic ed.

See http://www.oman.org/bshops.htm for recommended bookshops 
to buy such books, and see 
Adhra's Magic Touch at h´ttp://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/3549/
for receipes from the Omani/Zanzibari cuisine in the Internet. 

Joachim Duester
Oman Studies Centre
http://www.oman.org