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Title:

The immigrant cookbook : recipes that make America great / collected and edited by Leyla Moushabeck.

Author:

Moushabeck, Leyla, compiler, editor.

ISBN:

9781566560382

Physical Description:

224 pages : color illustrations, 27 cm.

Content Type:

text

Media Type (RDA):

unmediated

Carrier Type:

volume

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Appetizers -- Salads -- Soups -- Vegetables -- Fish -- Poultry -- Meat -- Desserts -- Snacks and side dishes.

Abstract:

More than 42 million people living in the United States came here from other countries. Since its beginnings, America has been a haven for people seeking refuge from political or economic troubles, or simply those in search of adventure and prosperity in a land where opportunity is promised to all. Along with their hopes and dreams, they brought valuable gifts: recipes from their homelands that transformed the way America eats. What would the Southwest be without its piquant green chili pepper sauces and stews, New York City without its iconic Jewish delis, Dearborn without its Arab eateries, or Louisiana without the Creole and Cajun flavors of its signature gumbos and jambalayas? Imagine an America without pizza or pad Thai, hummus or hot dogs, sushi or strudel. For most people, it wouldn't taste much like America at all.

Subject Term:

International cooking.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

Added Author:

Moushabeck, Leyla,

Format:

Books

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Summary

More than 42 million people living in the United States emigrated here from other countries. In the most idealized tales told about America, it is a safe haven for people seeking refuge or in search of adventure and prosperity in a land where opportunity is promised to all--promises that, in reality, are selectively applied and have been systematically denied to the communities on whose freedom and opportunities they are built.

Along with hopes and dreams, immigrants have brought valuable gifts: recipes and ancestral knowledge that has transformed the way America eats. Imagine an America without pizza or pad Thai, hummus or hot dogs, sushi or strudel--for most people, it wouldn't taste much like America at all.

In these times of troubling anti-immigrant rhetoric and vilification, The Immigrant Cookbook: Recipes that Make America Great offers a celebration of the many immigrant communities that have contributed to America's vibrant food culture, and uplifts the experiences of it's culinary innovators. This beautifully photographed cookbook features appetizers, entrees, and desserts--some familiar favorites, some likely to be new encounters--by renowned American chefs from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe.

Author Notes

Leyla Moushabeck is Interlink Publishing's longtime cookbook editor. Over the past 10 years, she has worked on numerous award-winning cookbooks, including, most recently, Interlink's humanitarian cookbook project Soup for Syria: Recipes to Celebrate our Shared Humanity and The Aleppo Cookbook, winner of the 2017 Art of Eating Prize. She is born to a Palestinian father and a British mother, and lives with her Colombian husband and son in Brooklyn.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In her introduction, Moushabeck (Soup for Syria) references "these troubling times of anti-immigrant rhetoric" and counters that rhetoric by extolling the culinary gifts 42 million American immigrants have given the country, which are the inspiration for this excellent collection of recipes provided by immigrants and their descendants. Each recipe includes a personal, often touching headnote and brief bio. The diversity of recipes is staggering: Armenian yogurt soup, roasted whole fish from Senegal with a bracing spice rub, colorful Singapore stir-fry. Some are innovative twists on classics; others are tried-and-true favorites. Author and blogger Nadia Hassani combines her German and Tunisian heritage by braiding challah dough around a rhubarb filling. Chef Reem Assil discovered muhammara while visiting her father's family in Syria. Ivan Garcia's pozole is eaten in Mexico to celebrate Mother's Day, birthdays, and "sometimes a divorce." Moushabeck strikes a balance between big-name chefs (Michelin-starred chef and humanitarian José Andrés checks in with his wife's gazpacho) and figures such as Tunde Wey, who emigrated from Nigeria at 16 and runs a dinner series exploring race. Wey's contribution is a recipe for smoky jollof rice, made with turmeric, coriander, and chili pepper. Affection for these dishes is palpable: writer Samantha Seneviratne says that her cashew semolina cake from Sri Lanka is so fragrant that it "doubles as aromatherapy" while baking. This is an outstanding melting pot of recipes. (Dec.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

In very few places will you, all at once, encounter so many James Beard Award-winning chefs and so many food professionals who are committed to making dreams come true. In this book, for which editor Moushabeck and the publisher are donating a portion of proceeds to the ACLU in support of immigrants' rights, more than 70 gourmet talents contribute 75 dishes from their native countries, covering a medley of cuisines from every continent but Antarctica. There are lots of recognizable names: Daniel Boulud (who contributes Lyonnaise salad with lardons), Australia's Curtis Stone (Pavlova with coconut cream and tropical fruits), Cronut inventor Dominique Ansel (mini-madeleines), and Jamaica's Ziggy Marley (coconut dream fish). Each profile-recipe features a straightforward bio and photo of the recipe's inventor, an in my own words introduction about the dish and its origins, and an exquisite color photograph. Directions are written in narrative style, with ingredients posted on the side. A great collection that benefits from the incredible accomplishments of its contributors, and its excellent cause.--Jacobs, Barbara Copyright 2017 Booklist