Cooking by the Numbers ... Man'oushe

Looking into the bestselling cookbooks of 2012

By Mark Rotella |

Feb 08, 2013

One name comes up over and over again in discussions of the future of cookbooks: Ottolenghi. Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem (Ten Speed, 2012) is drawing attention to Middle Eastern cooking both here and in the U.K. (where Ottolenghi has four restaurants).

Kate Heddings, deputy food editor of Food & Wine and executive editor of the magazine’s cookbooks, such as America’s Greatest New Cooks (Feb.), says Middle Eastern seems to be the hot new cuisine. She foresees growing popularity for Jewish and Persian food and points to the success of Clarkson Potter’s The Mile End Cookbook (2012) and anticipation for Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built (Schocken, Mar.) by Mark Russ Federman, former owner of the eponymous appetizer store on New York’s Lower East Side. In May, Interlink hopes to capitalize on the burgeoning Middle Eastern trend with Barbara Abdeni Massaad’s Man’oushé: Inside the Street Corner Lebanese Bakery, about the pizza-like national pie of Lebanon.

Messages from Lebanon: The Food Manifesto

This woman is wonderful. She is preaching the Slow Food philosophy without even knowing about Slow Food. It's common sense. Eat local foods, women cook for your family, preserve traditional recipes.
God bless you ya hajjeh!

Seeds

Plant seeds folks, that's all we have left!

Sheep in Zahleh

Photo copyright Tony Batty

A Table

photo by 5ftinf.

I found my dream table.

www.barbaramassaad.com

Mashrou' Leila - Lebanese Band and Controversy

Bravo, keep going... continue. We need more like you! The music rocks and the lyrics are authentic, true to the actual culture and ideologies the young are living through. Sometimes that bothers some people, who cares!