Sumac: Recipes and Stories From Syria

"Anas Atassi makes it clear right away: Sumac is not a cookbook concerned with purity or authenticity. It’s about luxuriating in Syrian food, yes, but food that has changed and adapted based on the ingredients that are available, the trends of the time, the preferences of people eating, and the memories of the one’s cooking. As such, the recipes are interlaced with descriptions of when and where Atassi encountered the dishes – more often than not, in his mother’s kitchen."