| Description |
143 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Summary |
"Award-winning writer and master storyteller Karim Alrawi draws on his deep knowledge of Arab culture in creating these enchanting tales that are a feast for young imaginations. These stories take readers of every age on a delightful literary, cultural and culinary odyssey. A profusion of unforgettable characters--fishermen and date merchants, child cooks and squabbling animals, beggars and thieves, genies and ghouls, sultans and princesses--appears in the stories presented here. Each tale features some aspect of food, feasting or cooking, and is followed by a recipe for a classic Arab dish. Alrawi also provides a wealth of scholarly anecdotes, illuminating many aspects of Arab culture and culinary history. Nahib Kazemi's luminous illustrations capture the magic of each tale"--Inside jacket. |
| Contents |
Juicy apricots -- The lion repents -- The story and the chickpeas -- A pot of coins -- Fish soup in Gaza -- Abu Nawas tells a tale -- Why chicken and ostrich cannot fly -- The last supper -- Student of the marshlands -- The brickmaker's hoard -- The sultan and his wazir -- The kindly old man -- The genie in the sack -- The dream garden -- In happiness and health, afterword. |
| Subject |
Cooking -- Middle East -- Juvenile fiction.
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Cooking -- Fiction.
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Cooking. (OCoLC)fst01754966
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Middle East. (OCoLC)fst01241586
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| Genre/Form |
Fairy tales. (OCoLC)fst01726605
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Fairy tales.
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| Added Author |
Kazemi, Nahid, illustrator.
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Zobaidi, Sobhi al-, 1961- contributor.
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Qanembou-Zobaidi, Tamam, contributor.
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| ISBN |
1623719089 |
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9781623719081 |
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