Category Archives: Cookbook review

Delights from the Garden of Eden by Nawal Nasrallah

I am aware that for a lot of people the word Iraq conjures violent images of blown-up vehicles, death and destruction. When I think of Iraq however, I am still starry-eyed and try my hardest to blot out these dark and tragic  images. The Iraq I saw (years ago) was magical. Imagine being led in [...]
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Simply Lebanese, by Ina’am Atalla

I  first saw  Mrs. Atalla on a television show a few years ago.  Chef Ramzi, a famous Lebanese chef, was touring the world meeting Lebanese expats and immigrant restaurateurs  and this was filmed during his  weekly thirty-minute documentary. This particular episode took place in London and while Chef Ramzi was interviewing Mrs. Atalla in her [...]
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Mint, cinnamon & Blossom Water, by Ivy Liacopoulou

Reviewing a cookbook is one thing; reviewing a cookbook painstakingly and lovingly created by a fellow blogger whose site  I had been visiting  for over a year, is quite another! I had been reading Ivy’s blog on a regular basis for a long while, with great interest; she is a serious and talented cook and [...]
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