There are a lot of very nice photographs of the completed recipes, and also some of the preparations and intermediary stages, where extra help might be needed.

This narrative is often raw and vivid and may seem out of place in a cookbook, but Alarnab’s food carried him on his journey, created his new livelihood, and connected him to the love of his home, making his powerful story a natural pairing with his recipes. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. If you have already submitted another request to index a book or magazine yourself, please do not make any additional requests until you have indexed and submitted that book or magazine.Like many refugees, he worked a variety of jobs before he began cooking pop-up dinners for UNICEF, catering, and ultimately opening a restaurant and reuniting with his family. I’m so excited to share the delicious Syrian cuisine of my homeland, and celebrate the restaurant in my adoptive city London, and everyone who comes to find us here. Many of the dishes that have become signatures at Alarnab’s London restaurant feature, including the falafel, which are strikingly shaped with hole in the middle for a ‘crispier texture’.

Alongside delicious recipes, Imad will share the unforgettable details of how he came to settle in London, as well as the story of his home country, Syria. He found a welcoming new home in the UK, and now has a much-loved restaurant in London, which won GQ’s ‘Breakthrough Restaurant of the Year’ award in 2022. Start by washing the lentils, rice and freekeh together in a large sieve until the water runs clear. Join Monocle’s Ivan Carvalho as he explores Milan’s vibrant food scene in the Porta Venezia neighbourhood, which is home to a wide array of offerings, including pizzas, Japanese izakayas and contemporary bistros.

Monocle’s Isabella Jewell sits down with renowned Italian chef Massimo Bottura and his wife, Lara Gilmore, to discuss their new food-and-lifestyle book, ‘Slow Food, Fast Cars’. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Having grown up in a time when travel was restricted to local holidays, she has spent her adult life fulfilling a desire to see the world.

Imad now runs an acclaimed restaurant in London, which was named GQ’s ‘Best Breakthrough Restaurant 2022’. Instructions are clear and thoughtful throughout, but it’s the author’s personal experiences that make this heartfelt cookbook shine. And alongside delicious recipes, mouthwatering photography, and beautiful illustrations, Imad shares the unforgettable details of how he came to settle in London, as well as the story of his home country, Syria.He was beaten very badly and was saved only by a neighbour who intervened as he lay bleeding and broken on the ground. It involves so much waiting, unable to do anything, completely at the mercy of a constantly changing series of people who mostly don’t seem to care. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

We are staying close to our studios in London this week for a tour of a neighbourhood that keeps evolving in culinary matters. The recipes were all easy to make, though some of the timings needed extending (possibly due to our oven’s idiosyncrasies). The recipes, which have traditional roots but are adapted for the modern home kitchen, rely on building a solid pantry of ingredients and spices to deliver big flavors. In some respects, the recipes in Imad Alarnab’s debut cookbook, named after his recently relocated Kingly Court restaurant in London’s Soho​​, are secondary to the author’s story of journeying as a refugee from his hometown of Damascus in Syria to London in 2015.This book will weave Imad’s unique and compelling story with recipes that are inspired by his love of his two homes: Damascus and London. Alarnab's story is heartbreaking and humbling, with pages of key Syrian ingredients sitting next to the story of his brutal beating by Syrian police. I really recommend this book – both as a cookbook with very tasty recipes, and as the story of a man who risked everything to come to London. I never make moussaka the traditional way because I don’t often cook meat at home and the required béchamel sauce is a faff, but this was a Syrian moussaka which is much less work and I put it together with ease in my lunch hour.