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Dan Perez/Phaidon Press toggle caption Dan Perez/Phaidon Press Cookbook author Reem Kassis says that many foods that are considered Middle Eastern or Israeli actually originated as Palestinian dishes. Dan Perez/Phaidon Press Growing up in East Jerusalem, Palestinian cookbook author Reem Kassis never expected to enter the food industry. For her, the kitchen represented a "life sentence" for women. Instead, Kassis moved to the U.S. when she was 17, first st...

Embed TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. A research study involving a chimpanzee raised in a Black family was the subject of the 2016 novel "We Love You, Charlie Freeman" by Kaitlyn Greenidge. Her second novel, "Libertie," which was just published, is a foray into historical fiction. Greenidge is a contributing writer for The New York Times. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan has this review of "Libertie." MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: "Libertie," a new novel by Kaitlyn Greenidge, is inspired by...

, Updated 15 Mar 2021, 16:28 GMT Reem Kassis is the author of The Arabesque Table: Contemporary Recipes from the Arab World. Photograph by Dan Perez Photograph by Dan Perez The Arabesque Table? I wanted to capture the evolving and cross-cultural Arab table, and I realised that to understand this modern way of eating, one had to understand the culinary history of the Arab world. At its core, food is more closely tied to language and religion than arbitrary political boundaries. I wanted to use...

The Arabesque Table tells of Kassis’s Palestinian family, while giving a modern twist to such dishes as fatteh, lentil soup and pistachio cake