The museum was inaugurated on 17 March 2000 and is operated by the Grythyttan School of Hospitality, Culinary Arts & Meal Science.
[2] The room where the museum is situated is in a specially built black cube, resembling the Kaaba, the most sacred site of Islam.
The architect Magnus Silfverhielm, fascinated by Arabic culture, wanted to create a place of pilgrimage for people interested in culinary arts, a bit like a "Mecca" for the like-minded.
The books were auctioned in London in 1997, where Granqvist bought the majority for the Swedish Academy of Culinary Arts & Meal Science.
[4] Written circa 1465 by Bartolomeo Platina, the Pope's librarian,[5] it was largely a translation into Latin of recipes by Martino da Como from his Libro de Arte Coquinaria (ca.