The Palestinian Table

"Quick: What’s Palestinian food? Think you don’t know? In fact, you do. Kibbeh, flatbreads, tabbouleh and za’atar are all dishes and ingredients found across the Fertile Crescent. Born in Jerusalem and educated in the West, Reem Kassis faced a familiar predicament: What would happen to her family’s culinary legacy in a generation or two, as the family’s women left the kitchen? Like so many others before her, Kassis decided to court posterity with a cookbook. Here are the stuffed grape leaves, shakshuka, fenugreek semolina cake and labneh and cabbage rolls of her family, and much more. Those with the patience for stuffing, chopping and kneading will find this book richly rewarding. Everyone else? Wait for an easy weekend, and take your time – thanks to one more daughter’s labor of love, these recipes aren’t going anywhere."