Category Archives: Cookbook review

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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Wines of Lebanon by Michael Karam

I am a wine ignoramus; it just so happened that  I had lunch with Kamal and his guests at Tawlet recently; a man with a British accent sitting on my left was introduced to me as  Michael Karam, author of a book on Lebanese wines. In the course of the following  months, both my English [...]
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The New Book of Middle-Eastern Food by Claudia Roden

This review is about the first cookbook I ever read on middle-eastern cuisine; my mother had bought it thirty years ago and handed it to me when I moved to the States. It was originally published in 1968 but has been revised since. There has been hundreds of books written about various middle-eastern cuisines since, [...]
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