In Arabesque, Greg Malouf draws his culinary inspiration from childhood memories, family traditions & his travels throught the Middle East, North Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean & Moorish Spain. Greg & his writing partner Lucy present a comprehensive A-Z of ingredients widely used in Middle Eastern cooking, from basics such as almonds, lemons & yoghurts, to lesser used ingredients such as rosewater, pomegranate & sumac. This book welcomes the stars of Arabic cooking into the modern kitchen with descriptions & history of each ingredient, as well as invaluable tips on how to select, prepare & cook them in delicious & exciting recipes. This award-winning collection of 170 recipes

Includes:: several of Greg`s signature dishes, such as salmon kibbeh nayeh & little pigeon bisteeya, alongside imaginative dinner party ideas like cardamom honey-glazed roast duck. Tuck into the delicious simple supper recipes, including lamb rump with pistachios & peppercorns, & finish off with the sumptuous rose-scented plum jelly & pine nut praline ice-cream.

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Following in the footsteps of great explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia & Wilfred Thesiger, Arabia is Levison Wood`s account of his most complex expedition yet: circumnavigating the Arabian Peninsula. Travelling through some of the harshest & most beautiful environments on earth, he seeks to challenge our perceptions of an often misunderstood part of the world, seeing how the region has changed & examining the stories we don`t often hear about in the media. ...

Travels in Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Yemen, Egypt & Jordan. With an exceptional eye for the human details of life Jonathan Raban presents the reader with an insight into Arab society & also raises some questions about Western perceptions of the Middle East.A gem of a book, full of events & people & philosophy.
- Sunday Telegraph
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Into Jonathan Raban s familiar Earls Court neighbourhood after the 1970s oil boom came new visitors from the Arab world, dressed in floor-length robes & yashmaks. A people apart, little known, Raban wanted to get behind the myth & the rumour to discover the reality of their lives & world. His journey took him through Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Yemen, Egypt & Jordan. What he discovered was a far cry from the camel, tent & sand dune archetypes of early European explorers. Oil wealth had seeped into almost every corner, & Bedouin encampments had been replaced by cosmopolitan boomtowns, camels by Range Rovers. The sons of Bedouin nomads were now studying medicine in Europe & engineering in New York. Yet in this fast-moving world, old certainties remained & cultural innovation lagged miles behind economic change ...

Pepin Letter Writing Sets come in carefully designed luxury boxes. Each box contains 10 sheets of 4 different designs (printed ...

PEPIN (R) gift & creative paper books all contain 4 pages of introduction & 12 large sheets of very high-quality wrapping paper. They can easily be removed from the books by tearing them along a perforated line. The wrapping papers are folded to fit into the book; when removed & opened they measure 50 cm x 70 cm (191/2 inch x 271/2 inch; a standard size for gift wrapping papers). Depending on the theme, we have selected a suitable light-weight paper quality. For example, papers with designs in gold, silver or bronze are printed on silky art paper on which the inks show to their best advantage. Designs with an antique or h&-made feel are printed on high-quality creamy offset paper. PEPIN (R) papers make your gift package look very special. In addition, our papers are suitable for scrap booking & all sorts of craft projects. Each volume contains 12 different, exceptional designs, in this case 12 beautiful Arabian design masterpieces. ...

One of the absolute classics of all time, the Arabian Nights is one of those books that everyone should have read just once in their lives. This is volume one of three. Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern & to save her own life, the vizier`s daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches & wonder
- tales of mystical lands peopled with princes & hunchbacks, the Angel of Death & magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba outwitting a band of forty thieves & of jinnis trapped in rings & in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1, 001 nights.
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One of the absolute classics of all time, the Arabian Nights is one of those books that everyone should have read just once in their lives. This is volume two of three. Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern & to save her own life, the vizier`s daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches & wonder
- tales of mystical lands peopled with princes & hunchbacks, the Angel of Death & magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba outwitting a band of forty thieves & of jinnis trapped in rings & in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1, 001 nights.
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One of the absolute classics of all time, the Arabian Nights is one of those books that everyone should have read just once in their lives. This is volume three of three. Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern & to save her own life, the vizier`s daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches & wonder
- tales of mystical lands peopled with princes & hunchbacks, the Angel of Death & magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba outwitting a band of forty thieves & of jinnis trapped in rings & in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1, 001 nights.
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Arabian Sands chronicles Wilfred Thesiger’s five years of exploration in the waterless desert ‘ Empty Quarter’ of Arabia, amongst the Bedu people. Thesiger’s 1945 visit was the first by a European to the region, & just before he left the process that would change it forever was beginning
- the discovery of oil. Travelling amongst the Bedu people, Thesiger experienced their everyday challenges of hunger & thirst, long marches beneath the blistering, relentless sun, the bitterly cold nights, & the constant danger of death if it was discovered he was a Christian ‘infidel’. An introduction by Rory Stewart discusses Thesiger’s travels, the dangers he put himself in, his unconventional personality & his insights into the vanished culture of the Bedu people.
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