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Walk into Sababa and you step onto a blank canvas with a riot of colour right at its centre. This is the buffet, bright with salads; some stained pink with roast beetroot juice, others seasoned with freshly squeezed lemon or strewn with generous quantities of fresh herbs. Here food is a celebration. Sababa is all about uncomplicated and wholesome food with a Middle Eastern and Mediterranean influence. Food is prepared fresh daily in the Sababa kitchens by sisters Tal and Nirit, and a group of de...

Over 100 authentic, seasonal recipes from Persian cook and food blogger, Maryam Sinaiee. *Winner of the Guild of Food Writers First Book Award* *Shortlisted for Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards* Nightingales and Roses offers you a true taste of Persian home cooking. Iranian food blogger and cook, Maryam Sinaiee, takes us through a full year in the Persian kitchen, explaining the stories and traditions behind each delicious dish. From Lamb and Aubergine Stew and Baked Fish with Tamarin...

Sufi Cuisine features over one hundred sumptuous recipes inspired by the teachings of Sufism, alongside lavish illustrations and charming anecdotes surrounding the preparation of each dish. The eating and cooking of food is intrinsically connected to Sufi religious practices, and the truly inspiring array of dishes here illustrates this beautifully. From chick pea soup and griddled cheese to swordfish casserole and sweet spinach, with desserts such as preserved rose petals and almond halvah, as...

Today, significant changes in farming and food processing have dramatically altered our diet from that of our ancestors. Intensive farming and processed foods, loaded with artificial sweeteners and flavors, preservatives and other additives are affecting our physical, mental, and indeed our spiritual health. With this dietary demise have come diet-related illnesses, such as heart attacks, clinical obesity and diabetes. In recent times, this decline is being challenged. Hippocrates' concept of l...

Which dessert is named after the heroic third-century Queen Zenobia of Palmyra? Which luscious rice pudding shares its name with the eighth-century Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun? How does one make the perfect Baqlawah? Blending cookery with culture and recipes with history, this is the fascinating and delectable story of traditional Arab sweets. The authors here take us on a culinary journey across Iraq, Syria, Egypt and al-Andalus, presenting readers with clear and easy-to-recreate recipes from acr...

This book offers an introduction to the popular dishes of Egypt, Maghreb, Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon. It provides a culinary journey through the countries of the South East Mediterranean. With its emphasis on lamb and chicken, yogurt, mint and thyme, grains, lentils, chick peas, and nuts - to name but a few - Arab cuisine is wholesome, healthy, and above all tasty. This series is designed as an introduction to the most famous tastes and flavours of a wide range of tradition cuisines. Each title...

This cultural history of Middle Eastern cuisine combines scholarship with passion: Professor Peter Heine's knowledge of the culinary traditions of the Omayyad, Abbasid, Ottoman, Safavid, as well as Moghul courts, is matched by his love for the tastes and smells produced by the contemporary cooking. And in order to share his enthusiasm with his readers he has added over one hundred recipes: some from modern times, others handed down by the celebrity chefs of the Moghul Empire, and even some with...