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The Gaza Kitchen - The Mosaic Rooms →

Food for the soul for the London crowd. Join Anissa Helou in conversation with the authors of The Gaza Kitchen Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt at The Mosaic Rooms, May 8th.

How a drink downed by Arab mystics went global →

Anissa Helou's Koshari Recipe →

Mark Hix, The Independent:

Anissa Helou, the Middle Eastern cookery writer, invited me a few weeks back to taste her Egyptian dish of koshari. I knew nothing about this delicious dish but I was happy to try it as I am endlessly curious about adding new Middle Eastern recipes to my repertoire. Anissa is opening a takeaway called Koshari Street (kosharistreet.com) serving only this rice dish in London’s St Martin’s Lane in early April – and if the koshari is as good as the one she made for me, it’s going to be a big hit.

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The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey →

The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey is a beautiful cookbook and an introduction to daily life in the embattled Gaza Strip: a visit to the intimate everyday spaces which never appear in the news.

Over 120 fully kitchen-tested recipes present the enticingly herby, peppery, lemony tastes of Gazan home-cooking, largely unknown to outsiders, while conversations with cooks, farmers, economists and others provide an extraordinary glimpse into everyday life for the 1.7 million inhabitants of the isolated enclave.

Beautiful documentary photography of cooks, kitchens, farms and markets brings the territory and its people to life.

Making Za'atar and Leen AlZaben's New Video Series →

Bringing the deliciousness of Palestine to Beirut →

BEIRUT: Almost two dozen women circled around a long kitchen table. Wearing plastic aprons and gloves, they emptied bowls of onions and began to chop. It looked like a cooking class, but the professional chefs were asking questions, not giving instructions…