The Iraqi Cookbook Paperback – February 1, 2011

The recipes are ok and many are missing additional ingredients. It’s ok as a reference. It has excessive amount of Islamic religious context and basically is mentioned on nearly every page. I gave my copy to goodwill.

It just arrived and it is colorful, bright, mint condition and positively gorgeous! Photographs throughout the book and I am very excited to use it in a few months. Kitchen is on vacation during the summer! Thank you for sending it so quickly and I am delighted with it! This would make the most amazing gift for anybody who’s interested in such cooking!! Forget filling it on the bookshelf unless you lay it flat. It’s definitely a table book!

The book includes most of the typical Iraqi dishes but I doubt that the recipes will deliver well when put to the test in the kitchen, especially by cooks unfamiliar with the cuisine, for the following reasons:The user of this book has to be prepared to figure out how much spices and salt to add to most of the dishes, which might work with some foods like stews and the like, but definitely not the stuffed ones, for instance, and there are so many of these. The cooking instructions, more often than not, are inadequate, which the casual reader might see and welcome as simple. The cook has to do a lot of guesswork, especially when dealing with complex dishes.Most importantly, the user of the book needs to make up her/his mind whether to follow measurements by cup or by weight (given as equivalents in the lists of ingredients), because they are really really screwed up, especially with measurements of ingredients like flour, sugar, nuts, chopped parsley, dates, cheese, coconut.Some of the ingredients are not rendered accurately into English such as, green lentil for mung beans (mash), yellow turnip for kohlrabi (kalam). And speaking of citrus trees blossoming in autumn in Iraq (p. 275)? I don't think so. The typical Iraqi variety of mint bot-nij is not peppermint but river mint. The ingredient jireesh (fine uncooked cracked wheat) remains a mystery, no substitutes are given. The Glossary, which could have been used to give more details on such typical Iraqi ingredients, is a single page. It is utterly useless.

Our family is loving this cookbook For authentic Vegan Iraqi cooking. The author has done a beautiful job in every way.

This is from an Iraqi person; these recipes are indeed authentic. Excellent collection.

Excellent cookbook ! A treasure of Iraqi recipes!Wonderfully photographed and explained !

I went thru this book with my husband (Iraq Native) and we picked out a few things for me to learn to make. There were several dishes that he had never heard of before. Overall it seems to have many authentic recipes and has some good information regarding spices!

Beautiful recipes for delicious food. Love this biik❣️❣️

Excellent book and good quality despite saying used- very good it was more than good it was like brand new!! I really love this book!! It’s so nice to finally find an authentic Iraqi cookbook and the box is lovely with images and doesn’t even look used!

Like an empowered statesmen finding the voice to resonate and respresent his countrymen, this book is a “cook, and they shall come” to the void left behind in the bruised image of the modern day Mesopotamia. In the words of an artist ; Using a clenched fist to make a Kofte, Kebab or Kubba for the opposition, leaving that imprint that enters one body’ shows how poetic and artistic food can be.An iconic book written and communicated by an author who surely showers in rosewater leaves that impression on you to create your own fist and receive a bump from your stomach as you attempt to shadow the recipes.

With easy to follow instructions, even if you are novice in the kitchen you will impress your family and friends with these culinary masterpieces. I also like that there are alternatives to choose from, if you don't feel like chicken, why not try lamb? It is a cookbook that can be used for the everyday but also for dinner parties, making it great value for money!

having been grown up eating the food mentioned and cooked by well trained people from family friends or extended family , I can say that this book is a good introduction for the food from this part of the word which is by the way not Indian . It will make a good gift for a quick overview of the food type from this part of the word. A word which is troubled by wars and trouble but stretch in history 6000 A.C

Very very good book , thank you my only criticism is the cost of posting .. and the lack of communications.. however the book is a little gem !