12 must-read cooking books like The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey by Laila El-Haddad

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The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey

By: Laila El-Haddad

4.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This award-winning cookbook shares with readers the little-known but distinctive cuisine of the Gaz…

If you liked the cooking plot in The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey by Laila El-Haddad , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Offshore

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found  On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more

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2. Salt Houses

By: Hala Alyan

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more

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3. Olives, Lemons & Za'atar: The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking

By: Rawia Bishara , None

3.62

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Bishara's cooking combines Middle Eastern techniques with Mediterranean flavors. But she takes cues… read more

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4. Footnotes in Gaza

By: Joe Sacco

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the … read more

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5. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

By: Grant Snider

3.74

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator … read more

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  • nonfiction
"A book closed is just a block of paper."

-Grant Snider, I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

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6. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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7. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

By: Noor Hindi

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

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8. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

By: Sonya Renee Taylor

4.23

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

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9. Falastin: A Cookbook

By: Sami Tamimi

4.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

FALASTIN is a love letter to Palestine, the land and its people; an evocative collection of over 11… read more

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  • history
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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10. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

By: Pedro Martín

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It was like the driveway at Disneyland but with way more automatic weapons."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

"I like to say that my stories are 100% true 90% of the time. My memory and my heart like to play tricks on each other. The results are what makes my stories."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

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11. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

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12. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

By: Anya von Bremzen

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed international food writer and award-winning author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Coo… read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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13. Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s

By: B. Dylan Hollis

4.47

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from t… read more

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  • history
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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14. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

By: Priya Parker

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at wor… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Chill" is a selfishness disguised as kindness"

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"Good controversy is much more likely to happen when it is invited in but carefully structured."

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating."

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"Barack Obama's aunt once told him, 'If everyone is family, no one is family.' It is blood that makes a tribe, a border that makes a nation. The same is true of gatherings. So here is a corollary to h…"

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

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15. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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16. Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in México

By: Rick Martinez

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Join Rick Martínez on a once-in-a-lifetime culinary journey throughout México that begins in Mexico… read more

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  • travel
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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17. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

By: Ahed Tamimi

4.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. What the Fireflies Knew

By: Kai Harris

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones and Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, a comin… read more

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19. There's No Way I'd Die First

By: Lisa Springer

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Debut author Lisa Springer delivers a spine-tingling contemporary horror that follows a scary-movie… read more

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20. Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou

By: Melissa M. Martin

4.49

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book in U.S. FoodwaysWinner, IACP Book of the YearWinner, IACP B… read more

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  • history
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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21. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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22. Blood Orange

By: Yaffa As

4.60

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more

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  • nonfiction
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

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23. On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World

By: Raghavan Iyer

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author and instructor Raghavan Iyer explores the origin of curry across the globe wit… read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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24. Summer Island

By: Shelley Noble

3.55

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble pens a heartwarming story of a mother-daughter road… read more

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25. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

4.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

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26. Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen

By: Yasmin Khan

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Yasmin Khan unlocks the flavors and fragrances of modern Palestine, from the sun-kissed pomegranate… read more

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  • travel
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Plant-Based India: Nourishing Recipes Rooted in Tradition by Sheil Shukla

27. Plant-Based India: Nourishing Recipes Rooted in Tradition

By: Sheil Shukla

4.27

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE •  Physician and Plant Based Artist creator Dr. Sheil Shukla celebrates I… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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28. The Palestinian Table (Authentic Palestinan Recipes)

By: Reem Kassis

4.47

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

While interest in Middle Eastern cuisines has blossomed, the nuances and subtleties of Palestinian … read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Palestine on a Plate: Memories From My Mother's Kitchen by Joudie Kalla

29. Palestine on a Plate: Memories From My Mother's Kitchen

By: Joudie Kalla

4.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

While many countries in the Middle East have dishes in common, each country has its own interpretat… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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30. The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey

By: Laila El-Haddad

4.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This award-winning cookbook shares with readers the little-known but distinctive cuisine of the Gaz… read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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31. Our Syria: Recipes from Home

By: Dina Mousawi

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Syria is where food, memory, and resilience recreate the flavors of this beautiful country in Our … read more

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  • history
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction

11 must-read history books like The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey by Laila El-Haddad

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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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Falastin: A Cookbook

Sami Tamimi

4.49

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Rifqa

Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

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National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

Anya von Bremzen

3.55

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The Eyes and the Impossible

Dave Eggers

4.25

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Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

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The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

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Katherine Marsh

4.50

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