File Format | PDF
File Size | 13.0 MB
Pages | 792
Language | English
Category | International Cuisine
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Description: In this updated
and greatly enlarged edition of her Book of Middle Eastern Food, Claudia Roden
re-creates a classic. The book was originally published here in 1972 and was
hailed by James Beard as "a landmark in the field of cookery"; this
new version represents the accumulation of the author's thirty years of further
extensive travel throughout the ever-changing landscape of the Middle East,
gathering recipes and stories.
Now Ms. Roden
gives us more than 800 recipes, including the aromatic variations that accent a
dish and define the country of origin: fried garlic and cumin and coriander
from Egypt, cinnamon and allspice from Turkey, sumac and tamarind from Syria
and Lebanon, pomegranate syrup from Iran, preserved lemon and harissa from
North Africa. She has worked out simpler approaches to traditional dishes,
using healthier ingredients and time-saving methods without ever sacrificing
any of the extraordinary flavor, freshness, and texture that distinguish the
cooking of this part of the world.
Throughout these pages she draws on all
four of the region's major cooking styles:
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The refined haute cuisine of Iran, based on rice exquisitely prepared
and embellished with a range of meats, vegetables, fruits, and nuts
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Arab cooking from Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan--at its finest today, and a
good source for vegetable and bulgur wheat dishes
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The legendary Turkish cuisine, with its kebabs, wheat and rice dishes,
yogurt salads, savory pies, and syrupy pastries
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North African cooking, particularly the splendid fare of Morocco, with
its heady mix of hot and sweet, orchestrated to perfection in its couscous
dishes and tagines
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The New Book of Middle Eastern Food