Imad’s Syrian Kitchen: The Sunday Times bestseller full of the delicious flavours of Syria, with authentic recipes and true stories of life as a refugee

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Book review: Imad’s Syrian Kitchen

Iftar is then a feast-style meal where we begin with a soup (lentils, onion or mushroom) or a salad. Uncovering a brief history of baking before diving into the main ingredients and their functionality, there's everything here from sumptuous apple pie to banana bread, lamingtons, and tiramisù. Or to put it in terms relevant to a restaurant column, we do not have a more diverse restaurant sector than any other country in Europe by accident.He ran supper clubs and pop-up restaurants and falafel bars, raising thousands of pounds for the charity Choose Love, which works with refugees just like Alarnab. Featuring more than 100 recipes, including vegan options, it's all about being simple to follow and easy while still making sure that you end up with a dish that your friends will be talking about for weeks to come. Even after starting from scratch in a new country after losing everything, with a highly-acclaimed restaurant and now a cookbook, he’s most proud of his daughters.

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After several years of supper clubs and charity events in London, Imad now runs Imad's Syrian Kitchen in Carnaby's Kingly Court.Featuring 70 recipes, many of which have long defined Hunan’s menu, you’ll learn the secret to cooking everything from prawn dumplings and lettuce wraps to double cooked pork.

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Cooking Syrian food now makes him feel “connected” to his home country, of course, “but it also makes me feel part of this unique community in the UK”. His moving, often harrowing story is woven into his cookbook, telling how his journey ended when he used a fake passport to cross the Channel in 2015. He says: “It was just something I felt like I needed to do, because you get to make a lot of people happy. Now, finally, here it is in the space off London’s Carnaby Street previously occupied by Asma Khan’s Darjeeling Express; a white-walled, floorboarded room suffused with light beneath a beamed ceiling.Cook yourself up the feeling of a Mediterranean holiday right from your kitchen with Claudia Roden’s Med: A Cookbook. With endless inspiration to draw on, it will satisfy anyone looking to get a bit more creative in the kitchen, with more than 100 recipes that will soon become some of your favourite dishes to cook.

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If you're running short of weeknight dinner inspiration, are feeling a bit out of your depth ahead of a big dinner party, or just fancy taking some time to refine and improve your cooking skills, investing in one of the best cookbooks is definitely a sensible decision. Fun fact of the day, the word Thali actually refers to the method by which meals are served in India where an array of dishes are all presented on one platter. It involves so much waiting, unable to do anything, completely at the mercy of a constantly changing series of people who mostly don’t seem to care. We'd recommend trying the burnt onion and aubergine dip, chocolate peanut butter cake and her vegan dinner inspiration, perfect for January cooking. Embracing creativity, rather than being a recipe book that prescribes very specific ideas, the latest Ottolenghi book takes on the ethos of the team's test kitchen, encouraging you to produce something great with what you have to hand.

With details on the science behind each step of the process, you’ll be ready to take on everything from kneading and feeding to actually baking.