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Arabesque [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Greg & Lucy Malouf (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd (5 Oct 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844005135
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844005130
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 17.8 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 50,664 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Greg Malouf is one of Australia's most innovative and influential chefs, drawing his culinary inspiration from childhood memories, family traditions and his travels through the Middle East, North Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and Moorish Spain. In Arabesque, Greg and his writing partner Lucy present a comprehensive A-Z of ingredients widely used in Middle Eastern cooking. The list covers everything from the basics, such as almonds, lemon and yoghurt, through to lesser-known ingredients such as rosewater and sumac. Each ingredient is showcased with a brief description and history, as well as invaluable tips on how to select, prepare and cook them. The accompanying recipes are a wonderfully modern take on the traditional dishes he grew up eating, such as Lamb Rump with Pistachios and Peppercorns, Salmon Kibbeh Nayeh and Seven Vegetable Cous Cous with Onion Jam. There are also tempting dinner party menu suggestions like Cardamom Honey-Glazed Roast Duck or Whole Roasted Snapper with Walnut Coriander Dressing. Irresistible desserts like Rose-Scented Berry Mousse, Date Brulee with Kahlua or Pine Nut Praline are destined to become favourites.

About the Author
Greg Malouf was born in Melbourne, Australia, of Lebanese parents. He served his formal apprenticeship in several of Australia s finest restaurants, and has forged a unique style of cooking that combines Middle Eastern tradition with contemporary flair. He has worked extensively in Europe and Asia and is the executive chef at MoMo restaurant in Sydney. Under his leadership the restaurant has won numerous awards and high respect from local and international critics. Lucy Malouf is a Melbourne-based writer and editor. She has worked as a freelance editor and manuscript adviser for several leading Australian publishers, as well as contributing features and reviews to major Australian newspapers, restaurant guides and magazines. She is the author of The Food and Wine Lover s Guide to Melbourne s Bays and Peninsulas and The Seasons Plate Cookbook.

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3.0 out of 5 stars okay for reference, not for meal planning, 6 May 2008
I love cooking middle eastern inspired food and thought this might be a better bet than the other Arabesque book (by Claudia Roden) because a reviewer said her book didn't have enough pictures. Well, there aren't many in this book either, which is disappointing - especially as they are all grouped together rather than appearing next to their recipe.

There are some quite appetising recipes here, written by an intelligent and knowledgeable chef. But if you are like me and like to plan meals for friends by flicking through several cookbooks for inspiration, it's almost impossible to do that with this book because it is arranged as an A-Z list. It's an idea that might have made sense to the writers, who wanted to give a comprehensive overview of what you can create with classic middle eastern ingredients, but who plans meal or dinner party thinking they want to tempt their friends with dishes based on A for Artichokes or C for Cardamom? Happen upon the Cardamom page and you'll find recipes from Cardamon orange wafers to Cardamom-crumbed lamb cutlets (although, to be honest, they don't sound particularly tempting or innovative to me). But if those same recipes had been grouped in conventional chapters, this book might have stood a much better chance of being used rather than sitting unused, gathering dust on the shelf. If you want mouthwatering modern middle eastern inspiration, try the Ottolenghi book instead!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Slightly mistitled, not overly user-friendly, 27 April 2009
By C. P. Dixon "Clive Dixon" (Devon, UK) - See all my reviews
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First of all, the title: You might possibly think that you're getting a book of traditional middle eastern (Arab) cookery. Well, only half right. Geographically it covers a much larger area for its inspiration, including Spain, Italy, Greece, Iran etc. In addition, much of the stuff here is the Maloufs' 'take' on middle eastern/mediterranean etc. cookery, with a certain level of arty-farty messing around (sorry, "reinterpreted with a modern twist"), rather than being traditional. There's even 'garlic Yorkshire pudding' to be found here, which is, er, Yorkshire pudding (that well known middle eastern delicacy) with garlic in it.

Secondly, the layout: I second the previous reviewer's comments here. I can understand food writers wanting to get away from the tired and unoriginal cookbook formula of successive chapters called "appetisers", "fish", "poultry", "meat", "desserts" etc., but if you're going to try to break the mould then you perhaps really need to arrange your chapters by groups of ingredients rather than a single ingredient. (The only successful examples I have seen of doing this that I can recall off the top of my head are in Diana Henry's books, for example Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons: Enchanting Dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa. Her books do actually work quite well with this kind of arrangement.) Sorry Greg & Lucy, but having chapters with names like "Cardamom" and "Cumin" really just does not work. How many people will think "Right, I want to cook something with cumin in tonight - flip to the cumin chapter"? It makes it a bit more of a coffee table type book which you would flick through in moments of idleness, perhaps sticking impromptu bookmarks in at particular pages as you go when you find something that you might want to get round to making at some indeterminate point in the future.

You'll also come across an Australian/English language barrier on occasions, with no glossary to help. Know what kaiser fleisch is? No, I didn't either, and even using Google it took me a while to even vaguely find out what it is. (It's some kind of sliced belly pork apparently, so not exactly an authentic middle eastern ingredient.) This is a UK edition, and it's unforgiveable to not tack on such information.

Now don't get me wrong, there are some good recipes to be found here, there's useful additional information on the ingredients themselves as well as the recipes, and there's some good photography (albeit that the photos are grouped together in clusters rather than positioned next to the appropriate recipes - for me good photography next to the recipe is a crucial element for a truly good cookbook). But I think that the book is to some extent trying to be something it isn't, and the arrangement issue is a bit of a problem for useability.
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