A Book of Middle Eastern Food Illustrated by Alta Ann Parkins

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Color illustrated cream boards. Very good, in very good dust wrapper. 453 pages. 23 x 17 cm. Inspired by her own nostalgia for the foods of her childhood, Mrs. Roden, an exile from Egypt, spent fifteen years collecting recipes that she loved - more than 500 recipes gathered from family notebooks, old manuscripts, mud-hut cookstoves, palace kitchens, and luxury restaurants of Persia, Egypt, Israel, Greece, Turkey Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, and other parts of the Middle East. Includes Bibliography and a List of Sources. This cookbook was recently highlighted in the New York Times - T Magazine article "The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years" (11/17/24). Former owners inscription covered over by stamped image. Interior and boards clean, dust wrapper rubbed and chipped at the edges. (Inventory #: 4458)