Secrets of Cooking: Armenian/Lebanese/Persian [Hardcover]

Linda Chirinian (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: Lionhart Inc Publisher; 1st edition (October 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096170330X
• ISBN-13: 978-0961703301
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #780,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you only get one Middle Eastern Cookery book..., April 22, 2001

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V. J. Vousden (Phoenix, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secrets of Cooking: Armenian/Lebanese/Persian (Hardcover)

...this is the one to get! I've had the real Persian food and the pleasure of those exotic spices and combinations lingered in my memory for many years. I searched and searched for a good cookery book that I, as an American, could understand. And I found it in this book by Linda Chirinian. The variety is excellent, recipes are easy to read and follow, the colour photos (a must for me as I'm a visual person) show the food at it's sumptious best. Some of my Favourites are Morgh Polow (Chicken with Dried Fruits and rice), Kuft Sabzi (Herbed Meatballs), Shawerma (Spiced meat), Khoreshta Loobia-sabz (String bean with meat stew), Kharn Pancharaghen (mixed vegetable bake), Khoreshta Bademjan (Eggplant/aubergine stew), Bagali Shevid Polow (Lima Beans in Dill rice), Sfeha/ Lahm-bil-ajin (Yogurt meat pies). There's just a sampling, are you getting hungry? I have now given this cookbook to a few of my friends who also enjoy the sensual flavours of this type of cooking and they love theirs, too. I have not been disappointed in one thing I've made from this book yet, nor will you be. I definitely recommend this to you if you are serious about Middle Eastern cooking. I'd choose it over several others I've gotten in the past.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Middle Eastern cooking for Dummies - easy with pics, February 7, 1999

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This review is from: Secrets of Cooking: Armenian/Lebanese/Persian (Hardcover)

Having grown up in the Mid-East, I cook this kind of food often. I have about two dozen ME cookbooks, but must say this one ranks as one of the best.

The recipes are easy to follow with salivating pictures that remind me of my childhood days in Lebanon. The breadth of recipes is incredible. The book contains recipes that I have been unable to find in other cookbooks - the kind my Mom tells me "a little of this, a little of that..." but I know I'll never master without a "real" recipe. Try it - it won't disappoint you.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars all of the other (positive) reviews are true!, October 22, 2003

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Robert Jantzen "drbobenterprises" (Philly burbs, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secrets of Cooking: Armenian/Lebanese/Persian (Hardcover)

My wife is Armenian from Lebanon but it is her mom who is the cook. In turn her mom was from Aleppo, Syria, which Patricia Wells describes as a culinary mecca in the Middle East in one of her travel food writings. This cookbook is the most authentic one for the traditional Armenian recipes of the Middle East diaspora: my mother-in-law has tested a number of them and confirms that they can be trusted.

Of course there are as many variations of these recipes as cooks (more, since when I get her to dictate recipes for posterity more than once, they always change), but these simple straightforward ones work and are good. Some of my food tales are at drbobenterprises.com.

I have bought about 15 copies of this book to give to relatives and friends over the years. Among all cookbooks in this area (and I have many as an amateur cook with a heavy cookbook habit), it stands out. So if you are interested in this cuisine, buy the book.