- Spiral-bound: 316 pages
- Publisher: CPRC; Spi edition (Sep 8 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0889771820
- ISBN-13: 978-0889771826
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 24.4 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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#399,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #94 in Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Regional & International > Middle Eastern
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Possibly the most uniquely Canadian book I’ve seen in several years is Habeeb Salloum’s Arab Cooking on a Saskatchewan Homestead: Recipes and Recollections from the Canadian Plains Research Centre at the University of Regina. Salloum’s parents emigrated to Canada from Syria in the early 1920s, and settled in Saskatchewan. He grew up as a prairie farm kid, joined the RCAF for World War II, then worked for the federal government for thirty-six years before retiring to a third career as a freelance historian, writer, and, on the evidence presented in the book, a food lover.
As cookbooks go, this is the real deal for people who like middle eastern cuisine, but it is a lot more than merely a cookbook. It is also a fine piece of cultural history written by a man about equally rooted in Arab and Canadian culture, in agricultural and nutritional science, and, most firmly, in Saskatchewan’s history of rural immigration. It is therefore a useful book on several grounds.
Brian Fawcett (Books in Canada)
-- Books in Canada
As cookbooks go, this is the real deal for people who like middle eastern cuisine, but it is a lot more than merely a cookbook. It is also a fine piece of cultural history written by a man about equally rooted in Arab and Canadian culture, in agricultural and nutritional science, and, most firmly, in Saskatchewan’s history of rural immigration. It is therefore a useful book on several grounds.
Brian Fawcett (Books in Canada)
-- Books in Canada
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent recipes, outstanding history book!,
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This review is from: Arab Cooking on a Saskatchewan Homestead: Recipies and Recollections (Spiral-bound)
I am learning a great deal about my country as I am creating absolutely delicious food from the easy to follow recipes from this gold mine of a book. The many photographs of the finished recipes are very helpful in knowing what a food should look like if one is unfamiliar with a particular dish. A fascinating read filled with the recounting of a rich and thought-provoking history that is not taught in typical Canadian school rooms. I'm very thankful for this beautiful treasure."Arab Cooking on a Saskatchewan Homestead" has the most outstanding index of any book -- cookbook or otherwise -- I have ever seen!
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