Jila Dana-Haeri and Shahrzad Ghorashian's Top Book Recommendations

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Ottolenghi

The Cookbook

Ottolenghi is one of the most iconic and dynamic restaurants in the country. Its unique blend of exquisite, fresh food, abundantly presented in a cutting-edge, elegant environment, has imaginatively redefined people's dining expectations. For the first time, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi are publishing here their superb sweet and savoury recipes.

Yotam and Sami's inventive yet simple dishes are inspired by their respective childhoods in West and East Jerusalem but rest on numerous other culinary traditions, ranging from North Africa to Lebanon, Italy and California. The 140...
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Recommended by Jila Dana-Haeri and Shahrzad Ghorashian, and 1 others.

Jila Dana-Haeri and Shahrzad GhorashianA recipe book full of inspired flavours and colours – layers of tastes and plenty of exciting salads. (Source)

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Jane Grigson's Fish Book

Jane Grigson's book on fish cookery takes the reader through the alphabet from anchovies to zander giving recipes and historical, geographical and culinary information. The text also gives advice about the preparation and cooking of fish. less
Recommended by Jila Dana-Haeri and Shahrzad Ghorashian, and 1 others.

Jila Dana-Haeri and Shahrzad GhorashianA simple and practical guide to cooking fish well. (Source)

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The Robert Carrier Cookbook.

A classic cookbook, one of the first to revise approaches to food in the 1960s. Subsequently issues in paperback. less
Recommended by Jila Dana-Haeri and Shahrzad Ghorashian, and 1 others.

Jila Dana-Haeri and Shahrzad GhorashianEasy-to-follow classic recipes from one of the most important food writers. (Source)

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Cooking

The Quintessential Art

From its intriguing opening question—"How can we reasonably judge a meal?"—to its rewarding conclusion, this beautiful book picks up where Brillat-Savarin left off almost two centuries ago. Hervé This, a cofounder (with the late physicist Nicholas Kurti) of the new approach to studying the scientific basis of cooking known as molecular gastronomy, investigates the question of culinary beauty in a series of playful, lively, and erudite dialogues. Considering the place of cuisine in Western culture, This explores an astonishing variety of topics and elaborates a revolutionary method for judging... more
Recommended by Jila Dana-Haeri and Shahrzad Ghorashian, and 1 others.

Jila Dana-Haeri and Shahrzad GhorashianSuperb book about the aesthetics, philosophy and development of taste Contains recipes among passages of writing from a variety of sources. (Source)

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