A Book of Middle Eastern Food; Illustrated by Alta Ann Parkins
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 453 pages. 23 x 17 cm. Inspired by her own nostalgia for the foods of her childhood, Mrs. Roden, an exile from Egypt, spent fifteen years collecting recipes that she loved - more than 500 recipes gathered from family notebooks, old manuscripts, mud-hut cookstoves, palace kitchens, and luxury restaurants of Persia, Egypt, Israel, Greece, Turkey Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, and other parts of the Middle East. Includes a Bibliography and a List of Sources. This cookbook was recently highlighted in the New York Times - T Magazine article "The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years" (11/17/24). Handwritten recipe for chicken dish on the rear of the dedication page with the same recipe laid in. Interior clean, boards lightly toned at head but clean, dust wrapper rubbed and chipped at the edges. Color illustrated cream boards. Very good, in very good dust wrapper. Item #4459
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