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The Sultan's Feast: A Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook Ancient Egypt while generations of ordinary readersAuthor Ibn Mubarak Shah TranslatorDaniel L. Newman The Arabic culinary tradition burst onto the scene in the middle of the tenth century, when al Warrq compiled a culinary treatise titledal Kitab al Tabikh (The Book of Dishes), containing over 600 recipes. However, it would take another ten centuries for cookery books to be produced in the European continent. For centuries to come, gastronomic writing would remain the sole preserve of the Arab Muslim