The North African Cookbook by Jeff Koehler - Hardback - 445 Authentic Maghreb Recipes - Cookery Gift for Home Cooks

Details Condition: New Format: Hardback ISBN: 9781838666262 Publisher: Phaidon Press Age Range: Adult Overview The North African Cookbook by Jeff Koehler is a landmark hardback collection celebrating the food of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. Twenty years in the making, it gathers hundreds of traditional recipes gathered from local cooks, bakers and market vendors across the Maghreb. Beautifully illustrated and generously researched, it is both a practical kitchen companion and a rich culinary history, perfect for home cooks, food lovers and anyone drawn to the flavours of North Africa. About the Book Spanning 468 pages and featuring 445 recipes, The North African Cookbook is one of the most comprehensive surveys of Maghrebi cuisine ever published. James Beard award-winning food writer Jeff Koehler spent two decades travelling across North Africa, consulting hundreds of home cooks and culinary experts to capture dishes that reflect Berber, Arab and Ottoman roots alongside French, Spanish and Italian influences layered on through centuries of trade and migration. From slow-simmered tagines and hearty couscous to breads, pastries, preserves and spice blends, the book moves confidently between everyday family cooking and the elaborate dishes served at weddings and festivals. Recipes are written with clarity and confidence-building detail, so cooks of every skill level can recreate authentic results at home. Alongside the recipes, Koehler weaves in historical context, personal encounters and regional variations, helping readers understand why a dish is made a certain way in Tunis compared with Fez or Tripoli. The result is a hardback reference that works equally well as a practical everyday cookbook and as an absorbing read on the culture and history of the region's food. It is a title that rewards both quick weeknight cooking and long, considered exploration of a cuisine too often reduced to a handful of familiar dishes. 445 authentic, kitchen-tested recipes span