BAVEL

From the acclaimed chefs behind award winning Los Angeles restaurant Bavel comes a gorgeous cookbook featuring personal stories and more than eighty recipes that celebrate the diversity of Middle Eastern cuisines NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME OUT Ori and Genevieve manage to pull off a style of cooking that is both familiar and therefore comforting but also new and therefore fresh and exciting This is the sort of food I could live on Yotam Ottolenghi When chef Ori Menashe and pastry chef Genevieve Gergis opened their first Los Angeles restaurant Bestia the city fell in love By the time they launched their second restaurant Bavel the love affair had expanded to cooks and food lovers nationwide Bavel the cookbook invites home cooks to explore the broad and varied cuisines of the Middle East through fragrant spice blends sublime zhougs tahini labneh and hummus rainbows of crisp pickled vegetables tender oven baked flatbreads fall off the bone meats and tagines buttery pastries and tarts and so much more Bavel pronounced bah VELLE the Hebrew name for Babel is a metaphor for the myriad cultural spiritual and political differences that divide us The food of Bavel tells the many stories of the countries defined as the Mi