Far-Off

Precisely 800 years after al-Idrisi first reported the presence of pasta secca on Italian soil in A Diversion for the Man Longing to Travel to Far-Off Places, Italians were finally eating all the maccheroni they wanted.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

The execution of Philip of Mahdiyah happened at the very time when engravers were at work on the silver planisphere, and al-Idrisi was bringing his decade and a half of study to an end by writing A Diversion for the Man Longing to Travel to Far-Off Places.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places, of course (there are some in my garden); but the real old and clever kind, with their scales lying lippety-lappety one over the other, like pine-cone scales, that lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon in the High and Far-Off Days, are always called Armadillos, because they were so clever.

Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

Yet he had never met anyone who had seen him; for the Master had dwelt, it was said, chiefly among the strange tribes of the Far-Off

Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

A Diversion for the Man Longing to Travel to Far-Off Places

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

IN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk.

Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

Anyone who was not content merely to gaze in astonishment at the world thus displayed, could consult al-Idrisi’s great geography book that was kept beside it—its title translates as A Diversion for the Man Longing to Travel to Far-Off Places.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

But it is to a few remarkable lines from A Diversion for the Man Longing to Travel to Far-Off Places that Roger’s court geographer owes the fame he has recently acquired in Italy—remarkable, that is, because they constitute the first and best clue as to the origins of pasta, the most recognizably Italian dish of them all.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

So it is easy to understand why the first Italian food historians to come across al-Idrisi’s A Diversion for the Man Longing to Travel to Far-Off Places fell upon the following passage so eagerly.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

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Forbes.com: News Russell Flannery 2011