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1: excelent cookbook
This book reminded me f all the food I had growing up. The book also does a great job of reviewing the backgorund fo the food and gives a personal touch about each recipe. If there is one middle eastern cookbook to have - this one is it!
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2: The best book on middle eastern food!
If you're going to buy one book on middle eastern food, this is the one to get! There are hundreds of recipes and every single one that I have tried so far have turned out delicious. This book has opened up a whole new culinary world for me. Many of the recipes have simple lists of ingredients, but when combined they work sublimely well together. Other recipes are more complex and include lots of spices which work deliciously together. Some of my don't miss favorites so far are: Grated Carrot Salad, Peppers Stuffed With Rice, Chicken With Almonds and Honey, Chicken With Preserved Lemons and Olives (it takes 1 month to pickle the lemons, but it's well worth the wait!) and Eggplant in Spicy Honey Sauce.
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3: Adventures in great food
I discovered this book while visiting relatives in Amsterdam. I've been exploring tagine recently and this book just opened up for me the whole of Near Eastern/North African cooking. I went to one of the wonderful Amsterdam spice markets and stocked up before my return home and have been having a great time cooking from the book ever since.
The recipes are clearly laid out and easy to cook, and the book itself is great reading with a lot of fascinating background material and lovely photos of the finished product. It's just a pleasure to use.
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4: Best Middle Eastern Book - EVER
I lived in Alexandria, Egypt for 14 years before moving to the US for good. This book captures the essence of Egyptian, and other Arabic, cooking. My American mother who lived in Alexandria for 16 years could rival any Egyptian woman in the kitchen. I learned a few things from her but she passed away a few years after our family moved to the US and ever since I've been trying to find a book that would come close to my North Carolinian mother's Arabic cooking. Well, that search started over 30 years ago and thanks to Claudia, my search is finally over. I no longer have to buy another book on Middle Eastern food. This book is a work of art. The memories it conjures up of life and especially food in the Middle East brought tears to my eyes. This book is replacing dozens of obsolete Arabic cook books on my shelf. None even come close. I wish I could thank Claudia personally for taking the time to write such a wonderful book that's full of not only great recipes that are very easy to follow, but equally exciting prose and tid bits of the mother land. There is no equal in my eyes to Claudia and now I'm on a quest to get all her other books.
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5: Sexy Stuff!
Great book. So glad I got it. What a whole bunch of flavor. Need something new and different to eat? Here you go! This woman (Claudia Roden) really knows her stuff. Yummm!
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