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In Arab Cooking on a Saskatchewan Homestead, over 200 recipes and the author's recollections from childhood combine to tell the story of a little-known group of early immigrants to the Saskatchewan prairies--the Syrians (most of them later known as Lebanese). There was a significant Syrian community in Saskatchewan during the Depression, and as Mr. Salloum points out, their traditional foods and crops were well-suited to the dryland farming that the drought of the 1930s demanded. Thus they thrived during this difficult period on the prairies. Their traditional foods--such as yogurt, chickpeas, and burghul--were, at the time, virtually unknown to their fellow homesteaders; today, however, these same foods are an important part of an increasingly varied and globally influenced North American cuisine.
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Habeeb Salloum is a Canadian author who grew up in Saskatchewan, joined the RCAF during the Second World War, and then worked for the Canadian Department of National Revenue for 36 years. For the last 25 years he has been a full-time freelance writer and author, specializing in food, history, and travel. Besides 5 books and 19 chapters in books, he has had hundreds of articles about food, travel, history, and homesteading in western Canada appear in such publications as the Toronto Star, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Christian Science Monitor. Among his most notable works are the books Journeys Back to Arab Spain, From the Lands of Figs and Olives, Arabic Contributions to the English Vocabulary, Classic Vegetarian Cooking from the Middle East and North Africa. Arab Cooking on a Saskatchewan Homestead won Cuisine Canada and the University of Guelph's Silver Canadian Culinary Book Awards in 2006.
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"The stylish new edition...touches on everything from the Syrian civil war to the meals that nourished Salloum's family through the Depression years." -- The Globe and Mail
"With recollections that show the grit and improvisation of early Syrian pioneers, Habeeb Salloum draws upon his own life experiences and family traditions in Arab Cooking on a Prairie Homestead: Recipes and Recollections from a Syrian Pioneer to demonstrate his love of traditional Arab cuisine." -- Midwest Book Review
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- PublisherUniversity of Regina Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0889771820
- ISBN 13 9780889771826
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages316
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Arab Cooking on a Saskatchewan Homestead: Recipes And Recollections
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Canadian Plains Research Center | University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2005
ISBN 10: 0889771820
ISBN 13: 9780889771826
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Spiral Bound. First Edition, First Printing. pp. viii, 316. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated spiral-bound covers. Rich with many illustrations, photographs, photographic reproductions, facsimiles, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+. In Arab Cooking on a Saskatchewan Homestead, over 200 recipes and the author's recollections from childhood combine to tell the story of a little-known group of early immigrants to the Saskatchewan prairies--the Syrians (most of them later known as Lebanese). There was a significant Syrian community in Saskatchewan during the Depression, and as Mr. Salloum points out, their traditional foods and crops were well-suited to the dryland farming that the drought of the 1930s demanded. Thus they thrived during this difficult period on the prairies. Their traditional foods--such as yogurt, chickpeas, and burghul--were, at the time, virtually unknown to their fellow homesteaders; today, however, these same foods are an important part of an increasingly varied and globally influenced North American cuisine. Seller Inventory # 3343
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