Omama.’s Reviews > The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey > Status Update

A book about Gaza cuisine? That tiny, troubled sliver of the southeastern Mediterranean, the focus of seemingly unending struggle, where bombs and rockets, stones and bitter invective, are hurled back and forth across the border with Israel and occasionally too with neighboring Egypt. Who could care about food in a context so contentious? Isn’t that the very definition of frivolity?
Well, turns out, it’s not.