The Arabesque Table

Available from Book Larder when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Reem Kassis was an unknown in the West when Phaidon published The Palestinian Table. It has gone into three printings, selling over 17K copies, and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR. Why now Arabesque and what does that mean? Arabesque represents her desire to survey not only dishes from throughout the Arab world, but also how the cuisine has absorbed influences and ingredients across borders, and how it has evolved in the contemporary home kitchen. She also looks to how contemporary Arab