Middle Eastern Cooking

by Christine Osborne

Culled from the rich heritage of delicious Middle Eastern cooking, this collection of favorite dishes includes Baklava, Stuffed Vine Leaves, Lentil Soup, Baked Fish in Tahini Sauce, and many others.

Hardcover

First published March 1, 1994

About the author

Christine Osborne is an award winning writer and photographer who has contributed to prominent newspapers and magazines around the world. She came to prominence in 1970 on receiving the Pacific Area Travel Association award for travel articles on S.E.Asia. The next decades,saw Osborne exploring the Middle East and Africa from a base in London. Following publication of her first book - The Gulf States & Oman in 1977 - she fulfilled writing and photographic commissions on the developing world. The thousands of images collected became the basis of a number of photo stock libraries, including the specialist agency World Religions Photo Library. Her haunting pictures of starving children taken during the devastating Ethiopian droughts of the 1970s were published in a number of European newspapers, including The Times. One of her many assignments was interviewing Joy Adamson, the Lion Woman, in Kenya in 1973. In 1979 Osborne was the only woman photographer accredited to the Buckingham Palace press corps to cover Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s historic tour of Arabia. The Queen of Jordan wrote the introduction to her second book, An Insight and Guide to Jordan. Osborne saw many of the earth’s still pristine places before the advent of mass tourism. In 1981 she visited Iraq, invited to Baghdad by the Ba’athist regime under Saddam Hussein. An intrepid traveller throughout her career, Osborne has spent a lifetime on the road. She has written 20 books and travel guides including on Pakistan, Morocco, Thailand, Malaysia, Bali and the Seychelles. Her most recent book is Wajid & The Perfect Pearl, illustrated tales from 'Old Araby". She currently resides in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.

Reviews

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are over 100 Middle Eastern dishes in this collection that I found easy to read and duplicate. Each is accompanied by a color photo. There is a good variety of dishes presented.