Treasured Middle Eastern Cookbook

Treasured Middle Eastern Cookbook includes over 400 recipes laid out over 276 pages with colorful photographs arranged by chapter. The book is categorized into ten chapters entitled Appetizers and Vegeterian Dishes, Dairy and Spices, Soups, Salads, Stews, Rice and Burghul Dishes, Meat, Poultry and Fish, Breads, and Desserts and Drinks. It contains some of the most favorite and familiar recipes such as, Humus Bi Tahina, Tabouleh, and Baklawa.

As a child in Iraq, I used to always watch my mother prepare meals for my family. Now, I live here in America and it's my turn, like my mother did, to cook for my husband and my three children. As I became busier and busier, I found that there wasn't always time to perform every step in all the recipes I made. Still wanting to retain all the flavor of the recipes, I had to devise shortcuts to save time. Now I can offer them to the public in Treasured Middle Eastern Cookbook.

Although this is the first book I have written in English, this is my second cookbook. My first book was written in Arabic and was therefore geared toward a Middle Eastern audience. I then caught on to the rapid growth of the popularity of Middle Eastern food and realized that different people from all sorts of heritages were developing a taste for Middle Eastern cuisine. It was this fact that inspired me to write my second book in English. I wanted everybody to experience the wonderful variety of tastes that the Middle East has to offer.