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Middle Eastern Cookbook

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The cuisine of the Middle East reflects centuries of infusions from a multitude of cultures that make up this ancient part of the world, including those culinary influences of the Greeks, the Romans, the Asians, and others who at one time or another impacted upon the nations and cultures of the Middle East. In "The Middle Eastern Cookbook", Maria Khalife (a celebrity chef in the Arab world and founder of the Soufra Daimeh Food Network -- the first Arab food television channel) has compiled more than 120 traditional recipes drawn from the entire Middle East including the countries and cultures of Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. All of these showcased recipes have been adapted to western kitchens and use readily available ingredients for American cooks. From Aish bel lahm (Bread with Meat) from Saudi Arabia; to Warak inab bil zeit (Stuffed Vine Leaves) from Lebanon; to Dajaj salona (Chicken with Vegetables) from Bahrain; to Kebab al rubyan (Shrimp Balls) from Kuwait, "The Middle Eastern Cookbook" is a profusely illustrated and enthusiastically recommended addition to personal, professional, and community library international cookbook collections!

A must have cook book for all cooks. The book includes foods of the Middle East including the flag and countries these recipes that country is best known for.

The Author, Maria Khalife did a superb job bringing foods of the Middle we all know and love to our table, recipies I grew up with and and more. It is a culunary journey of foods of the Middle Eastern world all in one book. Page after page the book was well thought out, easy to understand and filled with mouth watering photos. Included is a glossary with descriptions of ingredients used in the Middle East. I am planning to purchase more copies of this book for each of my three daughters, I am keeping this one.

Norma

Wow, now this is a cookbook! Maria Khalife has put together a fantastic guide to Middle Eastern cuisine. As a Notre Dame educator and TV chef, her well designed cookbook offers exciting recipies with extensive photos of Middle Eastern dishes you will actually serve at home. A cookbook you'll be pleased to own -- highly recommended.

This was a birthday gift for my sister who's been trying to cook
middle eastern dishes for her palestinian husband and turns out
it was a great gift for BOTH of them. The instructions were easy
to understand; big colorful photos and she was able to follow
many of the recipes easily and learned new twists on some
dishes she's already used to preparing.

This is a cookbook that I ordered after eating a meal with my family in a Middle Eastern restaurant that serves homemade, delicious foods. I'd never tasted falafel, fatoush, and many of the other foods they had to offer. I was so impressed with it all that I wanted to try to make some of these foods myself and so I ordered The Middle Eastern Cookbook. It has a good variety of some of the most popular foods of the area and each recipe is notated with the country of origin and has a picture of the flag of that country by the recipe. Many of the recipes are shown in beautiful color photographs.

These are not extremely difficult things to make. Some of the ingredients might be harder to find if you cannot find a specialty store, but substitutes are usually given if the original can't be found. Maria Khalife gives a good introduction to each section, such as Chicken, and tells about some of the foods made with chicken. Appetizers, Beef, Chicken, Lamb, Vegetable dishes, Desserts are the main categories of foods.

The only complaint about this book is the index. As a former retrospective indexer, the index in a book is very important to me. I was looking for a couple of things to make and couldn't find them in the index. I started going through the book page-by-page and found the recipes that way. If you're interested in trying some Middle Eastern cooking, this is a good cookbook to start with.

I have used this cookbook a lot. I am please with the purchase. Good photos.

Bought this book for a friends bday. She loves it. Actually using the recipes. Reminds us of the Jerusalem restaurant in Denver co that we net at once a month for years.
Now I'm in RI and she is in Calif. So this was the perfect gift. She raves about the recipes and how authentic it is.

My family is Lebanese, and I love cooking Lebanese food . I found this book very intersting and will be making some recipes next week !!!! Photographs are very nice !!!

I really enjoyed reading this book, and I often give it to friends as birthday gifts.
The recipe are really simple, and the food is to die for.
A lot of these recipe can be made with a few ingredients that you probably have in your pantry or fridge. I use it almost ever week, and even used it to cater my own wedding. She gives a great selection of appetizers, desserts, main course. Awesome awesome cookbook. If you never tried middle eastern recipe, you need to try out this cookbook.

This is a good, easy to follow cookbook with simple instructions and pictures for most items. It is well laid out and highly recommended for middle eastern food. Many recipes can be done in the US or in the Middle East.