Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons: Enchanting Dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa

by Diana Henry (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $12.69

  This selection of recipes forms an collection of dishes from lesser explored areas of the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East. Divided into 12 chapters based on ingredients, the author introduces the home cook both to unsual indgredients and to unsual ways to cook with old favourites. Each dish is unusual, either because it uses exotic ingredients such as flower waters, pomegranates and cardamom, or because of its unusual use of ingredients, such as Middle Eastern Orange Cake , made almost entirely of pureed whole cooked oranges. Several dishes are unsual simply because of their names, consider Ice in Heaven , or the Crazy Water of the title.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $20.21

  This is the paperback edition of the much acclaimed Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons , which was shortlisted for The Glenfiddich Food Book of the Year, and features enchanting dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa. Divided into 12 chapters based on ingredients, Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons introduces the home cook both to unusual ingredients and to unusual ways to cook with old favourites. Diana Henry is a great new voice in the cookery world, and in this book's recipes - all of which herald from the Mediterranean, North Africa and Middle East - she uses modern classic ingredients such as olive oil, coriander, chilli and dates in such refreshing and delicious ways that the reader will taste them as if for the first time. Each dish has an irresistible charm, either because it uses 'exotic' ingredients such as flower waters, pomegranates and cardamom, or because of its name (consider Ice in Heaven, an Egyptian pudding of rose-scented rice and almonds), or because of its unusual use of ingredients (think of Middle Eastern Orange Cake, made almost entirely of pureed whole cooked oranges).