Dress in your finest coloured silks while you sip lemon sherbet. Nibble fresh almonds and apricots to the sound of a seductive lute, with no other distraction than a pulsating water-wheel irrigating a paradise garden. Open your eyes, for you are in Al-Andalus, that wide area of the Iberian Peninsula which over 2000 generations of Muslims called home in a golden age which endowed not only Spain but the whole world with new tastes in music, architecture, medicine, philosophy and of course food.