- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Kyle Cathie; New edition edition (28 Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856266028
- ISBN-13: 978-1856266024
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 20.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,167,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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BBC Good Food Magazine, April 05
beautifully presented... most of the recipes are straightforward and use a wide and tantalising variety of spices and herbs
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The tastes of North Africa represent one of the world's most exotic and tantalising cuisines. Having assimilated the influences of many regional cuisines, they encapsulate a rich cultural infusion. When the Moors conquered the lands around the Mediterranean over a thousand years ago, they brought with them foods that were to fashion western cooking for years to come. Spices from the caravan trade, rice from India, citrus fruit, aubergines, spinach and sugar cane were all introduced to Spain, Portugal, Sicily and Provence by the Arab invaders. In turn, when later expelled from their beloved Al-Andaluz, they took back to Morroco the culinary lessons the Iberian peninsula had taught them and maintained close links across the Gibraltar Straits, trading in tomatoes and peppers from Columbus' travels in the New World. Sarah Woodward is a fascinating guide to this culinary map, showing you how to combine vegetables, fruits, meats, nuts and spices and taste each dish as a delicious and intriguing slice of history.
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An excellent cook book which has allowed us to revisit, in tastes, the regional North African cookery of the areas we have visited. Excellent and very user friendly.
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Tastes of North Africa
19 July 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Tastes of North Africa by Sarah Woodward is a wonderful cookbook which I think should be part of any serious cook's library. Ms. Woodward has wonderful , and slightly different Moroccan recipes, even thought I have many other Moroccan cookbooks which have very good recipes. I love the recipes in this book and I've made several wonderful dishes from the book, and I intend to try more recipes . I ordered another book by ms. Woodward that I'm waiting to arrive on Moorish and Moroccan food.
Could have delved more into non Moroccan north african foods
19 Jan 2012
Format:Hardcover
I do like this book, it has good recipes, photos of about 50% of the dishes and is easy to follow. It has many of the classic Moroccan dishes and herein is where the problem lies. In terms of North african recipes the main focus is on Morocco, with scant regard shown for Tunisia, Egypt or Algeria. I know it is fairly similar but there are some major differences, for example Tunisian food tends to be hotter. And Egyptian food is even more distinctive.
The 2nd thing that bugged me was the moorish recipes, bearing in mind most people would assume this is a book on North African Cuisine. Sure they may have been influenced by the Moors, but these recipes from Spain, Sicily and Portugal tend to be very different from their original roots. You do not find anything like wine for instance in true North African cooking. If this book was called Tastes of southern and western Meditteranean it would have been more fitting.
Overall it has the usual recipes found in an essentially Morrocan/Spanish/Sicilian cookbook, that being said you could easily get reputable any book on north african cooking and be satisfied. One of my faves is North African Cooking by Tess Mallos, which may have fewer recipes but is more specific. But this is a pretty good book, just expect some doubling up if you own moorish cookbooks.
The 2nd thing that bugged me was the moorish recipes, bearing in mind most people would assume this is a book on North African Cuisine. Sure they may have been influenced by the Moors, but these recipes from Spain, Sicily and Portugal tend to be very different from their original roots. You do not find anything like wine for instance in true North African cooking. If this book was called Tastes of southern and western Meditteranean it would have been more fitting.
Overall it has the usual recipes found in an essentially Morrocan/Spanish/Sicilian cookbook, that being said you could easily get reputable any book on north african cooking and be satisfied. One of my faves is North African Cooking by Tess Mallos, which may have fewer recipes but is more specific. But this is a pretty good book, just expect some doubling up if you own moorish cookbooks.
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