Israeli Soul: Easy, Essential, Delicious

"Michael Solomonov had a hit in 2015 with Zahav, a cookbook named after his Philadelphia restaurant. The recipes from that book still felt so fresh to me, I wondered whether he would have anything new to add – but of course he did. This book is organized around things you might find on or next to a falafel sandwich, each one a perfect building block for interesting meals of all kinds: Chicken salad with tehina that can top hummus, a slice of toast, or a mess of greens, a Moroccan tomato-and-pepper sauce that would be lovely on almost anything, and a dead-simple, two-ingredient recipe for fried mushrooms that’s the most impressive thing I’ve cooked all year."