The Mezze Cookbook: Sharing Plates from the Middle East

Easy, tasty, enjoyable and refreshing recipes. It’s my first middle eastern recipe book and I couldn’t be happier. Pictures of every dish, great explanations, good portions. Can’t say anything wrong about it

I love this book - my queries re pricing etc are not in my mind detrimental to the book. So far, the only slight issue with the book is the classic Falafel, - my introduction to middle eastern cookery was in Egypt - where is the classic Falafel is made with dried broad beans. OK so I am being picky. Love the Ful Medames recipe – memories of Ful and Falafel meals with mint tea. Mezze for dinner this weekend.

Bought it for my partner who's a chef, at the begging he was very hesitant to give it a try, didn't seem too excited to try the recipes, but after giving it a try he has cooked almost the whole book already! He has learned many new flavor combinations and he loves it! Would defo recommend!

This cook book is great! The recipes are unusual and refreshing, easy to cook. I have had a lot of fun learning and more than a lot of fun eating! Thank you.

Another wonderful book by the author. Whenever I have people around I run to the book and choose what dishes I will present. Everybody is happy sharing! there is something really nice about sharing dishes, but this book makes it superb!!Thank you!

Interesting variety of recipes. Simple, concise instructions.

I have had a this book for a couple of months and I put it down. Every Saturday is Mezze day.

1. Book design: There are two pages of text, followed by pages of photos, followed by two pages of text. The two pages of photos contain the four dishes from the recipes from the pages of text. The dishes are numbered and the numbers point to captions. So to see a picture of a dish, you are turning pages back and forth and going back and forth correlating numbers to captions. 2. Fusion cuisine: I'll give one example: Quinoa. The books is subtitled "Sharing plates from The Middle East". Quinoa is neither Middle Eastern nor common in Middle Eastern cuisine, but it is there in every other recipe. This is similar to another Phaidon book, The Greek Vegetarian Cookbook. Adding Halloumi, Cypriot cheese, to every other recipe doesn't make it Greek food. 3. Cooking technique: I said this about another of Hage's books, The Lebanese Kitchen: " Unnecessarily complicated and time consuming". The trend continues here. I'll give one example: There are many ways to cook chicken. In the chicken fatteh recipe (fatteh is a simple dish, commonly eaten for breakfast), we're told to poach the chicken for 45 minutes. OK.

I loved the book from the day it arrived, it has a very beautiful and catchy theme to it ..... However when you get to cooking which I did... A 4 course meal.. the recipes are a disaster.... Eg "cook the onion for 10-15 min!!". The recipe mentions ingredient quantity for 10-12 Kibeh, when actually it can make around 30-40 Kibeh. Overall, award winning chef and very poor recipes.. Would not recommend.

Nice book

I have another book by this author and she is great. Many middle eastern recipes but not all are the straight traditional interpretation. She does branch out into modern twists. With this book you could make a meal of sharing menus for your friends.

Excellent livre, il disait être usagé, mais semblait réellement neuf, très satisfaite!

Ricette buonissime e descritte davvero molto bene