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The Language Of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber (2005, Hardcover)

Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Date: 2005-03-15
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375423044
ISBN-13: 9780375423048
Product ID: EPID30983355
Description: Despite her exotic-sounding name, Diana Abu-Jaber grew up in Syracuse, in upstate New York, the daughter of an American mother and a Jordanian father. There in the kitchen of a food-obsessed family, Diana and her sisters were taught the ...
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Synopsis
Despite her exotic-sounding name, Diana Abu-Jaber grew up in Syracuse, in upstate New York, the daughter of an American mother and a Jordanian father. There in the kitchen of a food-obsessed family, Diana and her sisters were taught the pleasures of Arabic food and cooking by their father. In this affectionate memoir, she recalls those days, and writes lushly about the pleasures of baklava and roasted lamb, cumin and grapeleaves--and includes a mouth-watering selection of recipes.

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Publication Date:2005-03-15

Size
Length:330 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:17.6 oz

Publisher's Note
From the acclaimed author of Crescent, called “radiant, wise, and passionate” by the Chicago Tribune, here is a vibrant, humorous memoir of growing up with a gregarious Jordanian father who loved to cook. Diana Abu-Jaber weaves the story of her life in upstate New York and in Jordan around vividly remembered meals: everything from Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts with her Arab-American cousins to goat stew feasts under a Bedouin tent in the desert. These sensuously evoked meals in turn illuminate the two cultures of Diana’s childhood–American and Jordanian–and the
richness and difficulty of straddling both. They also bring her wonderfully eccentric family to life, most memorably her imperious American grandmother and her impractical, hotheaded, displaced immigrant father, who, like many an immigrant before him, cooked to remember the place he came from and to pass that connection on to his children.

As she does in her fiction, Diana draws us in with her exquisite insight and compassion, and with her amazing talent for describing food and the myriad pleasures and adventures associated with cooking and eating. Each chapter contains mouthwatering recipes for many of the dishes described, from her Middle Eastern grandmother’s Mad Genius Knaffea to her American grandmother’s Easy Roast Beef, to her aunt Aya’s Poetic Baklava. The Language of Baklava gives us the chance not only to grow up alongside Diana, but also to share meals with her every step of the way–unforgettable feasts that teach her, and us, as much about iden-tity, love, and family as they do about food.

Industry Reviews
"Food as a way to remember or a way to forget--either way, Abu-Jaber gets it just right."
Kirkus (01/01/2005)

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