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Palestinian pleasures brought to the table
Bread pudding, Palestinian style
[Dan Perez]
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
The Palestinian Table
Reem Kassis
(Phaidon, £24.95)
FRUSTRATED by the oversimplification of Arab food in London restaurants, and not wanting the dishes that have survived generations to all be lumped together, Reem Kassis decided to write a book.
She wanted people — and her children — to experience the unique and complex depth that makes up Palestinian cookery and the result, fusing food with national identity, is this beautifully produced volume.
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