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For This Palestinian Cook, The Kitchen Is A 'Powerful Place' — Not A 'Life Sentence' Amy Salit and Thea Chaloner produced and edited the audio of this interview. Bridget Bentz and Molly Seavy-Nesper adapted it for the Web. TERRY GROSS April 7, 20211:48 PM ETHeard on Fresh Air Growing up in East Jerusalem, Palestinian cookbook author…
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 studying business at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and then at the London School of ...
, 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 history of our cuisine to demonstrate how food often transcends the boxes we put it in. Can y...
- Everyday Middle Eastern Cooking Christopher Kimball travels to the Galilee Valley to visit with author of "The Palestinian Table," Reem Kassis, who cooks maqlubeh, a multilayered chicken and rice dish worthy of a feast. Then, Chris heads to Tel Aviv to taste the classic semolina cake, hareesa. Back in the kitchen, Milk Street Cook Bianca Borges shows Chris a streamlined version of Palestinian Upside-Down Chicken and Rice. Finally, Milk Street Cook Josh Mamaclay makes Semolina-Sesame Cake with a crunchy sesame seed topping and sweet citrus syrup. Episode Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds...
The Arabesque Table tells of Kassis’s Palestinian family, while giving a modern twist to such dishes as fatteh, lentil soup and pistachio cake