Truffle kerfuffle

From Ibn ‘Abdūn’s rulebook for Seville market, translated by Bernard Lewis: “Truffles should not be sold around the mosque, for this is a delicacy of the dissolute.” (Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources, ed Olivia R Constable) There’s no reason to believe this ties in with the prohibition on the use of sugar candy in judicial combat.

Trevor @ 3 June 2006 6:52 PM

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