al-Dahhak bin Mukhlad Abu 'Asim al-Nabil الضحاك بن مخلد أبو عاصم النبيل · Chapters on Food

‘The best of your seasonings is salt.”

Bismillah, then he took a morsel and ate it, then a second. Then he said: “I notice some fat in the food but it is not the fat of the meat.” ‘Abdullah said: “O Commander of the Believers! I went out to the marketplace looking for some fatty meat (bones with plenty of meat on them) to buy, but it was expensive, so I bought some lean meat (bones with not much meat on them) for a Dirham, and added…