This book is full of easy delicious and contemporary recipes.If you like the middle easern palate, this book is almost all inclusive.The pictures are colorful and helpful in showing how the final product should look.The hard cover is surdy and the pages of quality paper.I highly recommend it.
Review #2
Desserts use Cool Whip; even vegetable recipes use meat
I question how traditional the recipes can be since the desserts contain cool whip! Moreover, virtually every single recipe in the Vegetables chapter contains meat (usually lamb or stewing beef). The entire book contains one recipes recommended for vegetarians, and that is a very common one (certainly not remotely unique to Iran, Armenia, or Persia). I'm returning my copy; this was a huge disappointment
Review #3
all of the other (positive) reviews are true!
My wife is Armenian from Lebanon but it is her mom who is the cook. In turn her mom was from Aleppo, Syria, which Patricia Wells describes as a culinary mecca in the Middle East in one of her travel food writings. This cookbook is the most authentic one for the traditional Armenian recipes of the Middle East diaspora: my mother-in-law has tested a number of them and confirms that they can be trusted.
Of course there are as many variations of these recipes as cooks (more, since when I get her to dictate recipes for posterity more than once, they always change), but these simple straightforward ones work and are good. Some of my food tales are at drbobenterprises.com.
I have bought about 15 copies of this book to give to relatives and friends over the years. Among all cookbooks in this area (and I have many as an amateur cook with a heavy cookbook habit), it stands out. So if you are interested in this cuisine, buy the book.
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