From Tagine to Masala: Recipes Gathered from Along the Arabian Trade Routes - Softcover

Harrison, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904566766 ISBN 13: 9781904566762

Publisher: Zodiac Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

From Tagine to Masala is a 124 page gastronomic journey along the Arabian Trade Routes and includes recipes from the UAE, Oman and Bahrain. Author Mike Harrison has lived and worked in the Middle East as a teacher and language specialist for many years and has, with the help of internationally renowned chefs, collected and refined hundreds of recipes with a regional flavour. In From Tagine to Masala, Mike has narrowed his selection to just 50 delicious dishes, each accented with colour photographs. Starting with refreshing Moroccan Thé à la menthe and closing with delectable Spice Island Spice Cake, Mike adds to each recipe by including a personal anecdote. Mike deliberately sought out recipes that were recognisable in Middle Eastern cooking but contained a culinary twist compared with the traditional version. Included in this unique cookery book is an essential illustrated guide to the spices and herbs used in Middle Eastern cooking, complete with Arabic transliteration and translation, making the ingredients and the recipes accessible to even the novice chef.

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Review

'There is no ingredient more essential to good eating than an author who genuinely knows what people enjoy, and this fascinating and handy collection contains authentic dishes adapted from some of the world's oldest cuisines. You will find everything from light appetizers and kebabs to robust ragouts and rich rices in these pages - all fragrant with the region's distinctive use of herbs, fruits and spices.' --George Williams, Gulf Daily News

About the Author

Mike Harrison is a member of that itinerant tribe of nomadic English language specialists, who spends his life wandering from country to country. He has worked for different private and state institutions in around 17 different countries, including Tunisia, Senegal, Iraq, Turkey, Tajikistan, Bahrain and is currently back in the United Arab Emirates, where he hopes to stay for a long time. He has worked as teacher trainer, language consultant, and university lecturer for such diverse organisations as the British Council, the Omani Ministry of Education, the Aga Khan Foundation, and the Albanian Ministry of Defence! One common thread in these meanderings apart from brief interludes in Ireland and Latvia has been a deliberate choice to live and work within the periphery of the Islamic world. Since settling back in the Gulf region, Mike has written about and photographed food for a number of regional newspapers and magazines. This first book of his is the culmination of more than 20 years of gathering recipes from across the Arabian trade routes and the broader Islamic region: From Morocco to Indonesia, and from Turkey to Zanzibar. From Tagine to Masala is Mike's first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zodiac Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1904566766
• ISBN 13: 9781904566762
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 124