Middle Eastern Cookbook by Maria Khalife - Paperback

Perfect cookbook and pleased to have found it on the Cornwall Hospice amazon shop.

This item did meet all my expectations. I would have thought that my 5-Star rating says it all without the need to elaborate!

I purchased this book for my daughter, who is in college and discovering new cuisines that she enjoys. When she asked for a Middle Eastern cookbook for Christmas, I found this one on Amazon and based on the reviews thought it would be a good purchase.My daughter loves the book. She flipped through it with me after receiving it and pointed out several recipes she looks forward to trying. She said the ingredient lists are simple enough (although at IU, she has access to several international markets and can purchase special ingredients if necessary) and the directions are easy to follow. The photos in the book are appetizing, as are the descriptions of the various recipes. I know she is looking forward to trying many of the recipes--she is very excited about having this book at her disposal.I would recommend this book to anyone who has curiosity about Middle Eastern foods and cooking.

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.

You don't have to be from the Middlle East to want to own & use this book. The current trend encourages us to reach beyond regular American cooking to try a variety of tasty, appetizing foods rich with cinnamon, cloves, and other Middle Eastern spices. Ingredients are mostly obtainable in any grocery store, the recipes run from time consuming to relatively simple off-your-shelf supplies, and all are revealed with mouth-watering color photographs. So many dishes are vegetarian, so they are economically advantageous for the thrifty buyer; beans of all sorts, rice, onion and tomato rich ingredients make up for any lack of "animal flesh" in many recipes.