Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and a History of the Iraqi Cuisine - Softcover

Nasrallah, Nawal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140334793X ISBN 13: 9781403347930

Publisher: Author House, 2003

Synopsis

"Delights from the Garden of Eden is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, family, professional, and community library Ethnic Cookbook collections." Wisconsin Book Watch, Reviewer's choice.  This new Iraqi cookbook contains more than four hundred recipes covering all food categories. There is ample choice for both vegetarian and meat lovers, and many that will satisfy a sweet tooth. All recipes have been tested and are easy to follow. Introducing the recipes are thoroughly researched historical and cultural narratives that trace the development of the Iraqi cuisine from the times of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians, through the medieval era, and leading to its interaction with Mediterranean and world cuisine.
Of particular interest are the book's numerous folkloric stories, anecdotes, songs, cultural explications of customs, and excerpts from narratives written by foreign visitors to the region. Arabic calligraphy, and photos, paintings and sketches add to the pictorial appeal of the book.

About this title

From the Author

The book has received the Special Award of the Jury of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for 2007

About the Author

Nawal Nasrallah, a native of Iraq, was professor at Baghdad and Mosul universities teaching English literature and language. She is author of the definitive source for the Iraqi cuisine and its history Delights from the Garden of Eden (2003, 2013, 2018, published by Equinox of UK, Shefield); Hayy bin Yaqzan and Robinson Crusoe: A Study of an Early Arabic Impact on English Literature (1980); co-authored Beginner's Iraqi Arabic (Hippocrene Books, 2006). Of her other books: Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's Baghdadi Tenth-Centurty Cookbook, English Translation with Introduction and Glossary (Leiden: Brill, 2007); and Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook, English translation with an introduction, glossary, and appendix with modernized recipes from the book (Leiden: Brill, 2018). The author has been giving presentations and demonstrations on the Iraqi cuisine, ancient, medieval, and modern.

Edition details

• Publisher: Author House
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 140334793X
• ISBN 13: 9781403347930
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 664