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Customer Rating:
Summary: This is all you need for Middle Easter cooking
Comment: After my gourmet food writer friend's recommendation, purchased this for a quality food fan husband
as a gift. This book contains thorough recipes of Middle Eastern with history and original names.
Some inserts of beautiful photos, as well (which is more restaurant ready than home ready). Can use
out of this every day. Strongly recommended.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Very useful
Comment: The book is fantastic. Have a very long introduction to give you a better understanding of the food
as a part of middle east culture. Although have very little photos (I personally like photos on
cooking books), this book is full of great ideas. I think I will buy soon CLaudia Roden's Jewish
cookbook.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Finally..A Cookbook With Everything I Was Looking For
Comment: I was amazed when I received this book. I had been searching tirelessly for a cookbook which would
fulfill a demanding goal: how to satisfy the picky palate of a Jewish man raised in Israel but born
of Moroccan parents. I had tried a variety of regional cooking styles, but finally this cookbook was
it. As I began reading the recipes out loud to my boyfriend, I swear I could see the saliva forming
at the corners of his mouth. He all but ripped the cookbook from my hands! Thank you Claudia Roden
for also including the historical background information as to how to prepare recipes the
traditional way, in addition to the modern short-cuts. Both will come in handy as I, a traditional
Southern cook from South Carolina, learn a whole new world of cuisine.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Claudia Roden's ME Food
Comment: This is the all time best. I just bought this latest, updated edition because I've worn out the one
I've had for over 25 years! This book is my go-to reference for Middle Eastern food and culinary
traditions. You can't go wrong with this. The bonus is that Ms. Roden includes several variations of
particular dishes, and explains procedures very lucidly. I learned how to make many dishes using
this book. I also gave a copy to my culinarily-talented nephew, who needed a cookbook that would
give him all the basics of Middle eastern cuisine--food he'd experienced and grown up with, but
hadn't really seen made at home.

Customer Rating:
Summary: A must for every Middle Eastern cook
Comment: Very well researched. Wonderful tales and fables mixed in, adding context to the recipes -- and
sometimes conversation for the dinner table!

I especially appreciated the "variations"
that follow most recipes, which allow for one to adjust according to the family palate.
/>Beautiful photographs.

Thank you, Claudia Roden!