Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi
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, usually called al-Baghdadi (d. 1239 AD) was the compiler of an early Arabic language
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 cookbook of the Abbasid period, كتاب الطبيخ (The Book of Dishes), written in 1226.

The only manuscripts survive in Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

, and "for centuries, it had been the favorite cook-book of the Turks". (Perry 2006)
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