Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon

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Savor flavors of Morocco, Turkey, Lebanon at home.

If you have an appetite for exploring rich, diverse culinary traditions right from your kitchen, "Arabesque" by Claudia Roden will be a delightful companion. Roden's expertise brings the exotic tastes of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon to your dining table with vivid history and stories to spice up each recipe. Her clear, accessible instructions will embolden both new and experienced cooks to create extraordinary meals that are as enchanting to read about as they are to eat.

  • André Simon Award for Food (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon

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ISBN: 9780307264985
Authors: Claudia Roden
Publisher: Knopf
Date of Publication: 2006-10-31
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Food & Drink
Related Topics: Culinary, Food and Drink, Food, Cooking
Goodreads rating: 4.11
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Description

In the 1960s Claudia Roden introduced Americans to a new world of tastes in her classic A Book of Middle Eastern Food. Now, in her enchanting new book, Arabesque, she revisits the three countries with the most exciting cuisines today—Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. Interweaving history, stories, and her own observations, she gives us 150 of the most delectable recipes: some of them new discoveries, some reworkings of classic dishes—all of them made even more accessible and delicious for today’s home cook. From Morocco, the most exquisite and refined cuisine of North Africa: couscous dishes; multilayered pies; delicately flavored tagines; ways of marrying meat, poultry, or fish with fruit to create extraordinary combinations of spicy, savory, and sweet. From Turkey, a highly sophisticated cuisine that dates back to the Ottoman Empire yet reflects many new influences today: a delicious array of kebabs, fillo pies, eggplant dishes in many guises, bulgur and chickpea salads, stuffed grape leaves and peppers, and sweet puddings. From Lebanon, a cuisine of great diversity: a wide variety of mezze (those tempting appetizers that can make a meal all on their own); dishes featuring sun-drenched Middle Eastern vegetables and dried legumes; and national specialties such as kibbeh, meatballs with pine nuts, and lamb shanks with
 

Savor flavors of Morocco, Turkey, Lebanon at home.

If you have an appetite for exploring rich, diverse culinary traditions right from your kitchen, "Arabesque" by Claudia Roden will be a delightful companion. Roden's expertise brings the exotic tastes of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon to your dining table with vivid history and stories to spice up each recipe. Her clear, accessible instructions will embolden both new and experienced cooks to create extraordinary meals that are as enchanting to read about as they are to eat.

  • André Simon Award for Food (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.