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Reverend K

Bizarre fusion cuisine, bizarre cooking technique and bizarre book design

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2020

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1. Book design: There are two pages of text, followed by pages of photos, followed by two pages of text. The two pages of photos contain the four dishes from the recipes from the pages of text. The dishes are numbered and the numbers point to captions. So to see a picture of a dish, you are turning pages back and forth and going back and forth correlating numbers to captions.

2. Fusion cuisine: I'll give one example: Quinoa. The books is subtitled "Sharing plates from The Middle East". Quinoa is neither Middle Eastern nor common in Middle Eastern cuisine, but it is there in every other recipe. This is similar to another Phaidon book, The Greek Vegetarian Cookbook. Adding Halloumi, Cypriot cheese, to every other recipe doesn't make it Greek food.

3. Cooking technique: I said this about another of Hage's books, The Lebanese Kitchen: " Unnecessarily complicated and time consuming". The trend continues here. I'll give one example: There are many ways to cook chicken. In the chicken fatteh recipe (fatteh is a simple dish, commonly eaten for breakfast), we're told to poach the chicken for 45 minutes. OK.

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Elena Esp.

Stapple in our kitchen

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2020

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Bought it for my partner who's a chef, at the begging he was very hesitant to give it a try, didn't seem too excited to try the recipes, but after giving it a try he has cooked almost the whole book already! He has learned many new flavor combinations and he loves it! Would defo recommend!

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M. Alvizua

Great recipes!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2019

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Another wonderful book by the author. Whenever I have people around I run to the book and choose what dishes I will present. Everybody is happy sharing! there is something really nice about sharing dishes, but this book makes it superb!!Thank you!

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Lorraine Braid

Good.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 February 2022

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Interesting variety of recipes.
Simple, concise instructions.

A. Meshkat

very good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2019

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excellent

Nuria Blanco

Great addition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 September 2021

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Easy, tasty, enjoyable and refreshing recipes.
It’s my first middle eastern recipe book and I couldn’t be happier.
Pictures of every dish, great explanations, good portions. Can’t say anything wrong about it

T. Brunner

The best cook book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2019

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This cook book is great! The recipes are unusual and refreshing, easy to cook. I have had a lot of fun learning and more than a lot of fun eating! Thank you.

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Lucy Williams

Buy IT!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 July 2019

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Highly recommended - I have tried many recipes and will carry on doing so

B Maidstone

Best of the best!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 January 2019

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This book has caused so many problems- just can’t decide what to cook next! Sooooooo good!

Amazon Customer

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2019

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I have had a this book for a couple of months and I put it down. Every Saturday is Mezze day.

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