Great cookbook
I love this cookbook- it is a very complete collection of authentic but feasible recipes. If there were even more photos, this would be the only cookbook I'd use! This volume has a lot of instructions and info on special preparations and ingredients, in addition to stories about the origin of the recipes or cuisine. I tend to cross reference this a lot with "The Complete Middle East Cookbook" by Tess Mallos.
The Authority on Middle Eastern Cuisine
If there is one thing you will learn when you open this book, it is that Claudia Roden speaks with tremendous authority about Middle Eastern food. If there is another thing you will learn, it is how to make kibbe, kefta, tabouli, hommos, and foods you may have never encountered that use popular Middle Eastern ingredients of eggplant, bulgur, lamb, yoghurt, pomegranate, chick peas, etc.
My two favorite things about this book:
1. The folk tales.
2. The regional variations provided for many of the dishes.
If you are remotely interested in a cookbook of Middle Eastern dishes, this is the book to own.
The new book of middle eastern food - I recommend
This book is amazing as it is not only an excellent middle eastern cookbook but also a book filled with stories and even humoristic short texts that are a joy to read. The recipes are well presented and I love the different possibilities which follow some of them and allow you to prepare the dish with a different twist.
My only minus is that there are very few pictures and I find that those presented are not well chosen.
Nevertheless, I bought 4 units of the book and offered them to our 3 daughters. I kept one, of course.
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