The Language of Baklava
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Anchor
Published: March 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781400077762
Subjects: Regional & Ethnic - Middle Eastern; People of Color; International And Ethnic Cookery; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Women; Personal Memoirs; Cooking; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Cookery; Jordan
Description: Here is a vibrant, humorous memoir of growing up with a gregarious Jordanian father who loved to cook. Diana Abu-Jaber weaves the story of her life in upstate New York and in Jordan around vividly remembered meals: everything from Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts with her Arab-American cousins to goat stew feasts under a Bedouin tent in the desert. These sensuously evoked meals in turn illuminate the two cultures of Diana's childhood - American and Jordanian - and the richness and difficulty of straddling both. They also bring her wonderfully eccentric family to life, most memorably her imperious American grandmother and her impractical, hotheaded, displaced immigrant father, who, like many an immigrant before him, cooked to remember the place he came from and to pass that connection on to his children.