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A Book of Middle Eastern Food

Claudia Roden

I had this book early on, when my childhood in Syria and the tastes I loved there was still vivid.

Claudia is not only a brilliant and inspiring writer; her recipes are also completely reliable as she tests them out herself in her own kitchen which should be a must for guiding the home cook and is by no means usual now in today’s chef and TV cook’s world.

This like all Claudia’s books is for reading as well as cooking.

First Slice Your Cookbook

Arabella Boxer

The first cookery book I had when I first started cooking. Although I already wanted to try out ideas of my own these simply explained, dependable and always good tasting recipes was a valuable guide.

Turkish Cooking

Irfan Orga

I first went to Turkey in the early 1960’s and was entranced and moved by Irfan Orga’s Portrait of a Turkish Family so Turkish Cooking by Irfan Orga has remained a book which reminds m