Middle Eastern Basics


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A guide to Middle Eastern cooking includes seventy recipes with illustrated, step-by-step instructions for such dishes as fish pastilla, Iranian rice cakes, and seasoned fava beans.




Vegetable Basics


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Gives instructions on how to prepare different types of vegetables.




Ma Baseema


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MA BASEEMA, Middle Eastern Cuisine with Chaldean Flair gives you a taste of a culture that has one of the world's oldest cuisines, dating back to ancient Mesopotamia. This culinary journey will show you the essence of Chaldean food and delight your palate with a tempting collection of recipes ranging from soups, appetizers, salads, main-course dishes, breads and desserts. Upon savoring a Chaldean homemade meal, we hope you will say "Ma Baseema" ("How good it is"). Many of the Chaldean signature dishes found in this cook have been handed down unchanged for generations. And while the cuisine of other cultures and countries may have aspects of a regional character, Chaldean food defies any regional distinctions. . Different families or villages may lay claim to scrumptious variations of specific specialties, but the underlying ingredients and recipes as well as styles of cooking are common to all Chaldeans. The Chaldean people are passionate about their food and enjoy spending time preparing, cooking and eating with family and friends. Presenting a meal to guests is import to Chaldean people and we always strive to entertain warmly and joyously to everyone in our home. Great effort is made in ensuring that our guests are comfortable and enjoying their meal. Hospitality is highly valued, whether a person is a dear friend or merely an acquaintance, whether formally invited or spontaneously dropped by. Meals are more often a festive, casual experience than a formal one. If you are a host, remember to say "fathalo," which means "do me the honor," when you invite the guests to come to the table. Awafi! (Bon Appetite!). Enjoy yourself, excite your senses, and do it in good health. Thank you and "Fathalo" the Chaldean American Ladies of Charity invite you to come to our table to share and enjoy meals that are time honored tradition in the Chaldean culture.




Indian Basics


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Indian cuisine is known for its complex flavors and sophisticated pairings. Indian Basics adapts traditional Indian dishes for the busy North American lifestyle. With a just a few appliances and Indian spice mixes easily made at home, anyone can enjoy authentic Indian food with family and friends.




The Middle East in the World


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The Middle East in the World offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the broader Middle East. After a brief introduction to the study of the region, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of Middle Eastern history; important historical narratives; and the region's languages, religions, and global connections. Students are guided through the material with relevant maps, resource boxes, and text boxes that support and guide further independent exploration of the topics at hand. The second half of the book presents interdisciplinary case studies, each of which focuses on a specific country or sub-region and a salient issue, offering a taste of the cultural distinctiveness of the particular country while also drawing attention to global linkages. Readers will come away from this book with an understanding of the larger historical, political, and cultural frameworks that shaped the Middle East as we know it today, and of current issues that have relevance in the Middle East and beyond.




Flavors of the Sun


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A comprehensive guide to vibrant Middle Eastern ingredients, with more than 120 recipes that let them shine, from James Beard award winning Sahadi's market in Brooklyn, New York. Sumac. Urfa pepper. Halvah. Pomegranate molasses. Preserved lemons. The seasonings, staples, and spice blends used throughout the Middle East offer deliciously simple ways to transform food—once you know how to use them. In FLAVORS OF THE SUN, the people behind the iconic Brooklyn market Sahadi's showcase the versatility of these ingredients in over 120 everyday dishes, including starters, salads, soups, family-friendly meals, and desserts. With sections devoted to recipes boasting Bright, Savory, Spiced, Nutty, and Sweet accents, it offers inspiration, techniques, and intensely flavorful ways to use everything from Aleppo pepper to za'atar with confidence. Throughout, "no-recipe recipes" help build up your flavor intuition so you can effortlessly incorporate any of the featured spices, condiments, and preserves into your daily repertoire. 120 RECIPES WITH A PUNCH: From an updated take on nachos and mac and cheese to a spectacular pistachio cheesecake and tahini-enriched brownies, FLAVORS OF THE SUN features dozens of the store's most-requested dishes as well as Sahadi family favorites. Simple yet loaded with flavor, these recipes will inspire you to make these distinctive Middle Eastern ingredients essential components of your pantry. OPTIMUM VERSATILITY: Each section addresses a specific flavor profile and offers a set of essential ingredients for achieving it along with helpful tips on how to use them separately or in combination. Look-and-cook mini recipes provide even more ideas for using distinctive ingredients like tahini, Aleppo pepper, and preserved lemons to give a fresh new spin to everything from salad dressings to cocktails. EXPERT KNOWLEDGE: Family owned, Sahadi's has been a beloved resource since its founding by Abrahim Sahadi, an immigrant from Lebanon, more than 100 years ago. Now welcoming a fifth generation into the business, the Sahadi family's authentic imported goods and exhaustive knowledge continue to inspire local chefs and adventurous home cooks to taste and explore the diverse world of Middle Eastern spices and sundries. FOR FANS OF PLENTY: Much like PLENTY, this cookbook dives deep into core ingredients and provides intimate insights into flavorful spice blends like dukkah, berbere, ras el hanout, shawarma spices, and more. Each ingredient profile includes an informative buying guide so you can build your pantry like a pro. Perfect for: home cooks to seasoned chefs; fans of PLENTY; JERUSALEM; SHUK, and ZAHAV; Sahadi's loyal customers; those interested learning about spices and new ways to use them in everyday dishes







A Basic Middle Eastern Desert Survival Guide


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This concise yet powerful field guide book contains maps and an introduction specific to the Middle East. Included are plant identification, simple but flavorful recipes, and food additives named in Arabic and Kurdish dialect. But most importantly, it contains invaluable plant identification for that area, so that feeding the world nutritionally becomes a simple matter of that identification. The ramifications of a free food source are staggering.




Ancient Near East: The Basics


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Ancient Near East: The Basics surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great’s conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times, the struggles of state-building and empire construction, and the dissent from those efforts. Topics covered include: What do we mean when we talk about the Ancient Near East? The rise and fall of powerful states and monarchs Daily life both in the cities and out in the fields The legacy of the Ancient Near East: religion, science and writing systems. Featuring a glossary, chronology and suggestions for further reading, this book has all the tools the reader needs to understand the history and study of the Ancient Near East.




The Complete Middle East Cookbook


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The food of the Middle East is known for its diverse flavors and colors. Now you can enjoy all of these titillating meals in the comfort of your own home! Tess Mallos shows us how to produce delectable meals from the fascinating cultures of the Middle East, with recipes carefully tested and set out in easy to follow steps. Many of the dishes are illustrated, in 80 superb photographs. This book provides a brilliant insight into the regional dishes of Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt and Syria and an invaluable introduction to some of the lesser known cuisines of other countries in the region: Afghanistan, Armenia, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The pages in this Middle Eastern Cookbook guide the reader through the vast scope of Middle Eastern food —recipes and photographs show how to use familiar foods in new and exciting ways, while the introduction to each chapter examines the food, lifestyle and cooking methods of each country, to explain exactly how to use the right ingredients in delicious, authentic dishes. The recipes ensure that the traditional essence of each cuisine is preserved, while the instructions are given in the clearest and most accessible way for the modern cook, with guidance wherever necessary for the use of today's appliances. The basics of Middle Eastern cooking are carefully explained, and the glossary gives regional names and descriptions of a host of food and ingredients. The Complete Middle East Cookbook is a joy to read and use in the kitchen. A bestselling classic, it has been revised and enhanced with contemporary photographs, so that it will continue to delight all who seek to know and enjoy the rich and varied cuisines of the Middle East. Recipes include: Spanakopita (Spinach Pie) Koupepia (Stuffed Grape Vine Leaves) Patlicanli Pilav (Eggplant Pilaf) Samak Mashwi (Barbecued Fish With Dates) Kibbeh (Ground Lamb and Burghul) Nane Lavash (Wholemeal Flat Bread) Baklava (Almond and Cardamom Pastry