7 Top cooking books like Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria by Anas Atassi

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Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria

By: Anas Atassi

4.15

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

EXPLORING THE CONNECTION OF FOOD AND CULTURE The Syrian kitchen, shaped by influences from neighbor…

If you liked the cooking plot in Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria by Anas Atassi , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Furthest Station (Rivers of London, #5.5) by Ben Aaronovitch

1. The Furthest Station (Rivers of London, #5.5)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.10

Format: 144 pages, ebook

There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little… read more

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"I didn't ask why anybody would want to risk the electric two-step on the tracks because, as police, all three of us knew that there wasn't anything so stupid that somebody wouldn't try it sooner or l…"

-Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station (Rivers of London, #5.5)

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2. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh

4.22

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?"

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!"

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

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3. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa

4.26

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more

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  • nonfiction
"To each his own way of calming down."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

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4. The Buddha in the Attic

By: Julie Otsuka

3.70

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy … read more

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"„Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

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5. My Life in France

By: Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

In her own words, here is the story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with F… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction

6. Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking

By: Fuchsia Dunlop

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Fuchsia Dunlop trained as a chef in China's leading Sichuan cooking school and possesses the rare a… read more

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7. Silent Spring

By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more

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8. The Snowy Day

By: Ezra Jack Keats

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal! No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the … read more

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9. Beautiful Country

By: Qian Julie Wang

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"

-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country

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10. Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?

By: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good … read more

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11. The Korean Vegan Cookbook: Reflections and Recipes from Omma's Kitchen

By: Joanne Lee Molinaro

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NEW COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Epicurio… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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12. What Abigail Did That Summer (Rivers of London, #5.3)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.24

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ghost hunter, fox whisperer, troublemaker. It is the summer of 2013 and Abigail Kamara has been … read more

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13. How Do You Live?

By: Genzaburo Yoshino

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Anime master Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite childhood book, in English for the first time. First pub… read more

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"you can't become a great man without having great thoughts."

-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

"We must not forget to make a habit of modesty and restraint in our lives."

-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

"You take many things from the world, but I wonder what you will give back in return?"

-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

"There is nothing more beautiful than people nurturing goodwill toward their fellow beings."

-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

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14. Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training

By: Adam Stern

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry r… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

15. The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Gone Dark

By: Amanda Panitch

3.68

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Dry meets Hatchet in this thrilling tale of survival following a teen girl who must lead her friend… read more

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Cover of Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria by Anas Atassi

17. Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria

By: Anas Atassi

4.15

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

EXPLORING THE CONNECTION OF FOOD AND CULTURE The Syrian kitchen, shaped by influences from neighbor… read more

Similar categories in Anas Atassi's Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria book and Anas Atassi's Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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18. Amber & Rye: A Baltic Food Journey Estonia Latvia Lithuania

By: Zuza Zak

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"It is such a joy to finally see a cookbook on beautiful Baltic cuisine, done with so much sensitiv… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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19. Rambutan: Recipes from Sri Lanka

By: Cynthia Shanmugalingam

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR BY BON APPETIT * FOO… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
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20. Salt & Time: Recipes from a Modern Russian Kitchen

By: Alissa Timoshkina

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A collection of delicious modern recipes from Siberia and beyond. 'If anyone had to write a Russia… read more

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21. Quintessential Filipino Cooking: 75 Authentic and Classic Recipes of the Philippines

By: Liza Agbanlog

3.36

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Bring the Exciting Flavors of the Philippines into Your Kitchen Experience classic and authentic r… read more

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12 must-read nonfiction books like Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria by Anas Atassi

Transform Your Habits

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa

4.26

Transform Your Habits

My Life in France

Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Beautiful Country

Qian Julie Wang

4.18

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14 best-selling nonfiction books like My Life in France by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme

Transform Your Habits

As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

Joan Reardon , Avis DeVoto

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act

Alex Prud'Homme

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

Ruth Reichl

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen

Jacques Pépin

2.50

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