Book - Bavel: Modern Recipes Inspired by the Middle East

From the chefs behind the award-winning Los Angeles restaurant Bavel comes a gorgeous cookbook with personal stories and more than eighty recipes celebrating the diversity of Middle Eastern cuisines.

Chef Ori Menashe and pastry chef Genevieve Gergis invite home cooks to explore fragrant spice blends; zhougs, tahini, labneh, and hummus; crisp pickled vegetables; oven-baked flatbreads; fall-off-the-bone meats and tagines; and buttery pastries and tarts. Many recipes, like Tomato with Smoked Harissa, Turmeric Chicken with Toum, and Date-Walnut Tart, draw on Menashe’s Israeli upbringing and Gergis’s Egyptian roots. This is cooking without borders.

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