2. The ‘Passing on’ of the Mesopotamian Cuisine to the Baghdadi Abbasid Kitchen

The ancient Mesopotamian culinary traditions were ‘passed on’ to medieval Baghdad indirectly via the contemporary Persians, successors to the once prosperous Sassanian dynasty, who in their turn inherited the ancient Mesopotamian culinary traditions and passed them on with their own contributions (Waines, Patterns of Everyday Life, p.xxxiii). Another important route, often overlooked by modern researchers, is the direct one through the contemporary Nabateans themselves, the indigenous inheritors of the ancient Mesopotamian cuisine.