Ibn al-Rumi on Ruqaq Bread

Ibn al-Rumi (d.c.896) is a famous Abbasid poet, who lived and died in Baghdad. He was described as a glutton whose death was caused by a cookie laced with poison, because he had composed some satirical verses on a vizier (al-Mas’udi). Following is an example of the beautiful verses he composed on food, in which he describes thin rounds of flatbread, called ruqaq (my translation):