The Chef of Baghdad’s Daughter – 1001 nights later

by Scipio42

 

Greetings o worthy ones.

Greetings Masters! Welcome! Welcome to the world of my humble stories.

The slaves will be with you in a moment, when they have primped and powdered themselves for your delectation. They will move among you with whatever you desire.

Please don’t leave marks on the serving girls, master! Break it and you pay for it!

Once again, we shall journey back through the years to the storied world of old Bagdad. That magnificent city of fabled times, that metropolis of myth, a world long gone, a world that no longer is, or perhaps it never was. For tonight we go there for one specific night. One momentous evening among millions. A night of legend.

This night we shall travel in the hopes of experiencing the one thousand and first night of the stories of that queen of deferment, the wily and exquisitely talented woman that today we know as
Scheherazade

Are you sitting comfortably masters? Then we shall begin.

It is the reign of the Sultan Shariyah of blessed memory.

Well, about that …

For the last one thousand nights the sultan had been engaging in a battle of wits with the daughter of his vizier Selim, the girl known as Shaharizad. The sultan’s aims were simple and well stated - he would marry the maiden, deflower her, and then the next evening, kill her and consume her rather delicious body, just as he had with a myriad of others (Two hundred and thirty-five to be precise) previously, after catching his first wife in the arms of a member of his guard.

None of the sultan’s aims coincided with those of Shaharizad. Well, perhaps a couple. She was the two hundred and thirty-sixth maiden that Shariyah – blessed be his memory – had planned on consuming. But being the daughter of a wise and clever man, and no slouch when it came to brains herself. she was doing her utmost to avoid the killing part of the sultan’s plan.

To this end, commencing with their first evening together, Shaharizad had presented the sultan with his most recent ex-wife and skilfully prepared her for the eager ruler, slicing meat from her still-living body, before cooking it over a charcoal brazier with a selection of coatings and dipping sauces, all in a Bedouin tent set up in the palace grounds.

While the sultan was dining on the young lady, Shaharizad began to tell him a long, detailed, and quite involved story, while pillowing his head on her ample thighs. Sated on the exquisitely cooked girl meat (her father was not known as the Chef of Bagdad for nothing, he had taught his daughter well) the sultan had listened to the story, falling asleep before he could proceed on to the ravishing and deflowering portion of the evening.

Faced with his failure to consummate the plan, Shariyah had dismissed it as nothing, he would, he thought, simply do it the next evening.

Shaharizad, on the other hand, had other ideas and provided nightly meals in various forms, drawing the story out, night after night - and incidentally achieving herself a place in the annals of literature as she did so - until the point where we are to begin our story.

The score, as the common people would have it, is currently Shaharizad 1000 – Shariyah 0.

Of course, Shariyah only had to score once and the game was over, but the girl was, as they say,  playing her socks off.



Selim the Vizier was walking with his daughter in the grounds of the palace.

“Well, did you tell him the one about the island of men with one giant foot, who move around by hopping, and who sleep in the hot sun, with their foot raised above them as a shade?” her father asked.

“About two months ago.” His daughter said, disconsolately.

“The genie and the merchant?”

“Yes.”

“The giant Roc bird?”

“Done it.”

“How about the story of the Catoblepas(1)?” He suggested. “That’s always a good one.”

“Last year.” She said glumly. The father and daughter sat down on a bench over-looking a tranquil pool, where great golden fishes slowly circulated, in the crystal-clear waters.

“A thousand nights of story-telling, father.” Shaharizad said glumly.

“Yes, beloved daughter of mine.”

“Nine hundred and ninety-nine slaves butchered and cooked.” The first girl had not been a slave. All the others since had been from the market, much to the relief of the nubility of Bagdad, the maidens of marriageable age.

“Indeed!” Her father agreed with her, after all he had paid for all of them (and was sorely disappointed that he was never even sent the scraps). And the demand for only the very best quality girl-meat had put a serious strain on Bagdad’s markets.

“I’m tired father.” Shaharizad, “Tonight! Tonight, I am going to bring this to an end.” (What she didn’t tell her father, was that over the last few months she had come to the conclusion that virginity was an over-rated commodity and that she was hoping to do something about it)

Selim, the vizier looked at his daughter with a mix of pride and sadness. He was proud of the girl, because for the last one thousand nights she had demonstrated all of the cleverness, the wit and the wisdom that a man could hope for in an off-spring. But he was also sad because it was her femininity that had brought her to this pass. Had Shaharizad been a male, Selim had no doubt that he would have been training him as a successor.

“You are not going to do anything rash are you?” He asked cautiously.

“Hopefully not, oh beloved father. Hopefully not.” She said expressing a brief prayer of hope that the Prophet might, if he had nothing else important to do, intervene with God on her behalf. “But you never know. Listen, this is my plan … “


Later that evening …

Much to the consternation of the sultan Shariyah his stomach rumbled – audibly. Oh, for sure there were delicate sweet meats, candied dates, small slices of the banana fruit, dried and sugared so that they were crisp and crunchy; chilled grapes and balls of sweet sticky rice mixed with sliced strawberries. There were all sorts of sweet diversions to be picked at and nibbled, but he was missing his usual nightly feast of girl meat.

The nightly meals, along with Shaharizad’s intriguing story had become a part of his life, so much so that his waistline had expanded considerably on a diet of the finest quality girl-meat, cooked in delicious and exciting - and enticing - ways,

“And so, after all their adventures Aladdin and the Princess Jasmine settled down. Their lovemaking was most vigorous and the thief who became a prince put many babies into his wife, so many in fact that in fabled Deriabar today, there is not one person in twenty who does not have the lineage of the Prince Aladdin in their veins. After the first twelve babies were born, the princess eventually encouraged the prince to gather a harem, so that she could get a good night’s sleep.

“And they all lived happily ever after … “

With that traditional end to this mother of all stories, Shaharizad signalled to the sultan that she had finally – at last - finished her story.

Standing up in front of him she carefully removed her garments, folding them and setting them aside on a small chest, before lying down upon a divan, arms by her side, her lovely pale legs slightly parted, one knee slightly raised, and raising her head she looked at the Sultan.

“I am ready of Master of the World, Commander of the Sands.”

“Ready for what, Shaharizad?”

“To be despoiled, oh Slaughterer of Virginity, Ravisher of the Innocent. My story is done, there is no girl to cook tonight, so if you would oh Sultan of my Heart, take me now so I can get on and prepare myself for your supper.”

Now the Sultan Shariyah was not, as some people believe, a stupid man. Hungry yes, horny yes, but dumb? No. From the very first morning after their first night together, he had surmised how Shaharizad had planned her campaign. He had decided it would be good to allow it to play out.

After all the girl was clever, her stories entertaining, she was attractive and boy, could she cook!

So, he had allowed the story to go on night after night, enjoying its twists and turns, as he ate slave girls who had been boiled, fried and stewed, roasted, grilled, raw, seasoned, tempura battered. So, he didn’t get to fuck her, there were slave girls for that sort of thing, but Shariyah had come to respect Shaharizad. They often talked about other things while she prepared his nightly meal. She was respectful but honest, she never judged and when he asked her advice on a matter, it was usually worth listening to.

And talking about listening, she was a good listener, but some nights, though he would have denied it, all the sultan wanted to do was listen to her.

“One question, Mistress of loquaciousness?”

Shaharizad raised herself on one elbow. “Yes, my king?”

“If, after I despoil your maidenhood, you proceed to the cooking part … erm … am I the only one that can see a surprising flaw in your otherwise immaculate plan? I must admit that it seems like a major error for one who sustained a tale for one thousand and one nights. Who is going to prepare and cook you?”

“That would be my part of the evening, your Magnificence!”

Shariyah’s head whipped round as his vizier entered.

“Selim? What is my vizier doing here?”

“I am not here as your vizier my lord, but in my original role – as the man that your father named the Chef of Bagdad.”

“And you would do this?” Selim’s former career as Bagdad’s foremost cooker and seller of girl-flesh was well-known. “To your own daughter? That everyone knows you hold dearer than life.”

“I would, your Magnificence, if it was your will.”

“And what of your daughter’s will?”

“Oh King of the stars, who guides the mariners by your radiance, it is true that I love my daughter, Shaharizad above all things, but she is a mere girl, albeit a clever and talented one, but if it is your will, my Sultan then … “

At which point Selim drew a small tray from the side. On it were a selection of knives and small bottles. Even from where he sat, Shariyah could see how sharp the knives were. It is a measure of the sultan and his faith in Selim – who had demonstrated his faithfulness so many times over the years, that Shariyah did not feel threatened. That and two silent guards stood just behind him.

Still, the sultan paused for a moment. “So! I shall ravish your daughter, and you, the Chef of Bagdad will prepare her for me?”

“Yes, your magnificence.”

“If you have taught even one tenth of what you know to Shaharizad, then it would be a feast fit for … well, fit for a sultan!” Shariyah laughed.

The idea of dinner and show, was tempting to the sultan, his stomach was reminding him how hungry he was, and the way that the girl displayed herself on the couch was so very arousing. It was truly a dilemma such as you’d find in one of her ‘Arabian Nights’ stories, because, over the last two years, the sultan had gotten over the disappointment in women that had set him on his destructive path and he actually felt great affection for Shaharizad.

“You may leave us now, Selim, but wait close by. I am about to ravish your daughter, which I do not think you want to witness. When I am done, I shall call upon you again.”

The vizier left and the sultan leapt.

Mighty was his ardour, strong and hard and thrusting was his manliness. He plunged his mighty burning sword deep into the maiden’s virtue, chasing away her virginity like the sun chases away the night. As he would ride a fiery mare, did he ride the no longer a maiden Shaharizad. Thrusting, gasping, breathless passion, all played through their roles in the minutes that followed. Shariyah sated his ferocious lusts upon the woman who had put him off for one thousand nights.

‘Well, at least that’s that out of the way.’ Shaharizad told herself, as the sultan pumped away on top of her.

Now, this may seem cold, and unfeeling of the girl, considering that she had just been despoiled by the sultan. However, Shaharizad was focused on the long game, and she hoped that there would be other nights when she could explore the nature of passion, without the threat of a hot and spicy death hanging over her head. She did, however, remember to express an ‘ooh’ and an ‘ah!’ at the right moment, and she even congratulated herself on a timely ‘it’s SO big!’.

With his passion spent, and if truth be told, a little winded by his efforts, the Sultan of Bagdad, master of the Tigris and the Euphrates, Shariyah the Magnificent flopped onto the couch next to the woman Shaharizad.

“Shall I call my father, your majesty?” Shaharizad asked sweetly.

“What?!” The question pulled Shariyah out of his daze, as far as he had been concerned that was one almighty despoiling, and a short lie-down was completely in order.

“Shall I call for my father in his role as the Chef of Bagdad? I can soon wash myself and I know he will not take long to prepare me.”

“Wait!” He commanded her. “Wait! Wait a moment Shaharizad!

“I know what you’re doing.” He said, as he sat upright quickly (making himself a little dizzy in the process). “The same thing you have done every night for the last thousand nights.”

The woman looked at him with innocent eyes. Eyes a man could sink into and cheerfully die.

“Stop doing that too!” He snapped. “Each night I have come here, firstly to wed you and then ravish you and after that devour you. And each night you use your silky words and obfuscation to delay me, you feed me ‘till I fall asleep listening to your stories and the whole thing gets delayed another night.

“Well, I’ve done one, we’re wed. That was two that we did just then. That just leaves the devouring …”

“Selim!” The sultan bellowed.

The vizier appeared slowly, “Selim? If I ask you to do something, will you do it?”

The older man nodded, though all could see it hurt him to do so.

“Then let me have your daughter … to be my wife.” The sultan laughed. Both father and daughter gasped in surprise.

“She already is your Magnificence!”

The sultan waved his statement away. “That was more like a loan, let me have her properly so that she can be my wife. If she will have me.”

Both Selim and Shaharizad said yes simultaneously.

Great relief was felt by all concerned.

“Good!” Shariyah exclaimed, “We’ll have a proper wedding tomorrow, but right now, I am starving. I suppose as Shaharizad is off the menu I shall have to find something else!”

“About that. If your Magnificence would, please?” Selim stood back and indicated that the sultan should follow him.

The room next door, unbeknown to the sultan had been laid out ready for a banquet, a glittery, shiny bejewelled banquet of lavish decorations, gold plates and silver bowls. Smoking charcoal braziers sat amidst the dishes, with tendrils of pungently scented smokes rising to the ceiling.

The smoke wasn’t the only odour that filled the air above the banquet, the aromas of sauces and spices competed with the smoke and each other to get the attention of the sultan’s nose. Fruits and vegetables of various hues all vied with each other to assault the eye with their colours and textures. Lavish only began to describe the opulence that sat upon the tables with their snowy white cloths.

In the centre of it all, a tightly bound and gagged African slave was placed upon a great platter. Her eyes flicked around her, the whites showing her fear as she sought some escape from the fate that now advanced upon her.

Her efforts were useless of course. She was bound sitting upon her ample backside, her rounded buttocks spreading out on the platter, her legs out in front of her, with her ankles bound together and her hands tied to her knees. The effect was to splay her legs open. Her full belly fell down in front of her, overhanging the plump cunt that lay between her rounded thigh. Pendulous, full, if slightly flattened, breasts sat on her chest. An apple had been wedged in between her full lips, silencing her cries, but not muffling her whimpers.

The girl had been shaved all over and now she sat waiting for what was about to happen, helpless before the sultan, his vizier and his new wife.

“And all without me knowing?” Shariyah laughed. “And if I hadn’t decided to keep Shaharizad?”

“Then I would have sat where she is now, oh, my husband.” She told him, “And my end would have been magnificent!”

“Truly!” The sultan told her. “But now I get to see what you can do?” He asked.

“Not I majesty.” Shaharizad told him, “My father will demonstrate his skills for us.”

Selim bowed. “That is, if your majesty wishes?”

“Oh! I do Selim! I do wish! At least my wife can have a night off, tonight.”

The vizier Selim, reprising his role as the famed Chef of Bagdad stripped off his richly embroidered robes, and rolled his sleeves up. It was getting late in the evening and there was work to do.

It all came rushing back to him, from the days when his business and his existence was hand-to-mouth. When the money from one day paid for the next and profits were small. When men would line up for hours to watch him cook, in the hope of getting a flat bread full of hot, sizzling girl-meat, cooked by the acknowledged master.

It felt good. Too long now he had been a mover and a shaper, working for the throne, a man of papers and reports, of intelligences and insights. The task was in front of him and that was it.

The stakes were high – yet another banquet for the sultan, just like the first one he had cooked for the current sultan’s father – but Selim’s confidence in his own ability had never gone away. It was true he had taught Shaharizad all she knew, but, and he smiled inwardly, he hadn’t taught her everything that he knew.

“I have never been enamoured of live cooking your Magnificence,” he told Shariyah as he re-positioned the meat-slave so that she lay on her back, her head over a pail.

“It does no favours for the girl’s taste and complicates the process. Bismilah!” With one swift movement he had cut the slave’s throat, allowing the blood to fall into the bucket. He held her steady as she twitched and jiggled on the table, making soft soothing sounds as she bled out under his hand.

Certain that she was dead, Selim began to carve portions away from her body and thigh, from her buttocks and her arms. Her fingers and toes went into a pot of broth, bubbling away next to the table. Spices and herbs - already measured and portioned on a small dish - went in next and Selim adjusted the heat so that the pot would come to a boil.

Next, he moved to some of the collops he had carved away from the girl, slicing them rapidly into smaller pieces, finger-sized pieces of flesh. These were immersed into various oils or sauces and skewered on slivers of wet bamboo wood, then placed on one side.

While the sultan and his new wife billed and cooed on a heap of embroidered cushions, Selim sliced a great slab of meat off the girl’s full belly. Placing this on a cutting board, Selim cut it into smaller pieces, cubes half as long as his finger on a side. These cubes also went into dishes of aromatic sauces – including Selim’s signature pomegranate sauce – where they lay for a few minutes soaking.

Selim finished removing the head from the slave and washed it, before placing it on a platter of its own. After that he turned his attention back to the assorted braziers in front of him. Into a shallow pan went some butter. Once this was melted, shallots, garlic, and other herbs were added, and allowed to brown or infuse the oil. The cubes of belly meat were dredged in flour, dipped in the sauce again and fried until they were brown. It was a quick operation and soon a stack of the glistening, hot belly meat was piled upon a plate of rice.

Shaharizad got up from the cushions and brought the plate to her husband.

Sticking a cube with a small knife, Shariyah took one and bit into it.

“Allah be praised!” The sultan exclaimed. “This is incredible!”

Vizier nodded his acknowledgement but he had already moved onto the broth of fingers and toes, it was time to reduce the boil on that, and having done that, he moved over to the skewers.

Picking vegetables or fruits from the bowls on the table, Selim made up added them to the skewers making sheesh-kabobs of girl meat.

The wet bamboo meant that the sticks themselves would not burn but the meat sizzled and hissed as the fat and the sauces dripped onto the scented charcoal. For a moment Selim once again felt a pang of nostalgia for his older, simpler, life, but he was having so much fun, it was just a fleeting though.

Such small cuts did not take long to cook – one of the reasons Selim had gone down this route, rather than his famous whole girl roast – and soon there was a pile of the skewers on a side plate, which again Shaharizad brought to her husband.

“This pomegranate sauce is incredible!” Shariyah was again in a transport of delight.

Simple steaks, again cut into smaller pieces, sizzled away unadorned with sauce or condiment, over a brazier. Just girl-meat, pure and simple, cut from the meat-slave’s mighty thighs. As vizier to his sultan, Selim was well aware of how Shariyah liked his roasted meats, so when he judged that these pieces would be sufficiently cooked, with just a tiny hint of pinkness in the centre, he arranged them on a bed of salad leaves, with dates, and handed them to his daughter, who again brought them to her husband.

“Perhaps I should have married you Selim.” Shariyah said as he licked the juices off his fingers. (Shaharizad offered him a bowl of rose-water but no, Shariyah wanted to lick them.)

While the sultan enthused over the simplest of all the dishes so far, and by far the most difficult to get absolutely right – Selim turned to the broth. Dipping his finger tip in the soup, Selim tasted it. A pinch of ground black pepper, and two of ground rock salt, were swiftly thrown into the pot.

Placing a bowl next to the cooking pot, Selim ladled the broth into it, pouring it through a colander, before removing the slivers of flesh and dropping them into the soup, then discarding the bones.

“I’m not sure I can eat any more!” Shariyah told his wife as she knelt in front of him, presenting the bowl of soup.”

“At least try it, my husband.” She asked.

“Fuck me!” The sultan Shariyah the Magnificent exclaimed, in a most un-sultanly manner. “That is the best yet! Selim, that is incredible.”

“Thank you, Majesty,” the secret is the amount of garlic, Selim said to himself, there being none in the broth. “It is a little-known recipe said to power your virility, they say that it almost guarantees off-spring, if followed by conjugal activity.”

“Well then, I suppose we should be away and see if it works.” The sultan said rising and drawing Shaharizad with him. They scampered away to the other room to do the things husbands and wives do.

As they went, Shaharizad smiled to herself, this was the next part of the plan – the wily ex-maiden was going to rock the sultan’s world. Over the last two years she had been preparing for this night of nights, the poor schmuck had no idea what was about to hit him.

Left with the remains of the meat slave and a whole table full of ingredients, Selim went to do something he so very rarely did these days, cook for himself. There was so much he could have done, so many recipes he enjoyed, but the Chef of Bagdad wanted none of them.

As he sliced up some of the thigh meat, and a little of the finer flesh from the girl’s arms, he thought about what had happened. He considered how his daughter, when faced with almost certain death had conquered the situation and turned it to her advantage. He had helped of course, but she was the one whose stories and quick wits had turned the trick. Even now as she was in the sultan’s bed, Selim knew that she would turn that in her favour, and he was glad.

The sliced meat sizzled and browned. Slicing a flat bread, Selim filled it with the hot meat and bit into it.

“Allah be praised” he said aloud, “That is good.”

You should know, good masters, that like her story of Prince Aladdin and his bride Jasmin, Shariyah and Shaharizad lived many years together. Her cooking skills, equalled only by her fucking skills, were the foundations of a happy and lasting marriage.

And thus, reflecting on how sometimes it is the simpler things in life – a bed-wrecking fuck, a lavish banquet of girl meat or just the hot juicy flesh of a slave girl in a flat bread - that are best, we end the story of the Chef of Bagdad.

Thank you. Good night and now it is time to go home. And please masters, be remembering that we have neighbours and make not too much noise as you depart. Thank you.


(1) The catoblepas is a legendary creature from Ethiopia, first described by Pliny the Elder and later by Claudius Aelianus. It is said to resemble a cape buffalo, with its head always pointing downwards due to its great weight. Its stare or breath could either turn people into stone or kill them.