Alice's Kitchen: Traditional Lebanese Cooking

by Linda Dalal Sawaya 

Healthy recipes based on a traditional healthy Mediterranean diet---from the mountains of Lebanon as brought to America by an immigrant family, generously seasoned with sprinklings of memoir. Alice's Kitchen includes recipes for traditional, famililar, and favorite dishes such as hommous and tabbouli to more unusual recipes for making cheese, curing olives, making Lebanes ice cream, and baking Arabic bread. Includes many vegetarian recipes as the Lebanese diet is vegetable and grain based with small amounts of lamb, which is typical of Asian cuisines.

Chapters include recipes for appetizers, cheese and yogurt, soups, salads, lamb, chicken, fish, vegetarian entrées, breads and savory pastries, sweet pastries, preserves, herbs, spices & fragrant waters. Includes cultural and historical information, suggested menus, glossary, index, and many b/w illustrations and photos--both historical and illustrative.

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