Language of Baklava A Memoir

Name: Language of Baklava A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780375423048

ISBN-10: 0375423044

ISBN-13: 9780375423048

Edition: 2005

Authors: Diana Abu-Jaber

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From the acclaimed author ofCrescent, called “radiant, wise, and passionate” by the Chicago Tribune, here is a vibrant, humorous memoir of growing up with a gregarious Jordanian father who loved to cook. Diana Abu-Jaber weaves the story of her life in upstate New York and in Jordan around vividly remembered meals: everything from Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts with her Arab-American cousins to goat stew feasts under a Bedouin tent in the desert. These sensuously evoked meals in turn illuminate the two cultures of Diana’s childhood–American and Jordanian–and the richness and difficulty of straddling both. They also bring her wonderfully eccentric family to life, most memorably her…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/15/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Diana Abu-Jaber is the award-winning author of Origin, Crescent, Arabian Jazz, and The Language of Baklava. Her writing has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Ms., Salon, Vogue, Gourmet, the New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. She divides her time between Coral Gables, Florida, and Portland, Oregon.