A House With A Date Palm Will Never Starve
2018
6.5 x 8.75 in., 240 p.
Foreword by Claudia Roden, text by Ella Shohat, recipes by Yotam Ottolenghi, et al.

“With traditional and newly crafted recipes by forty-one chefs and food writers, this cookbook focuses on the many uses of date syrup, a central ingredient in Iraqi cooking.

In 2018, my Lamassu sculpture on the Fourth Plinth at London’s Trafalgar Square was unveiled. This Lamassu was built from thousands of date syrup cans, objects laden with historical significance. For decades, until the industry was decimated by war, dates had been Iraq’s second biggest export after oil.

As the Lamassu sat upon the Fourth Plinth, I invited chefs from around the world to contribute recipes using date syrup. Chefs and food writers including Yotam Ottolenghi, Alice Waters, Claudia Roden, Reem Kassis, Prue Leith, Jason Hammel, Nuno Mendes, Thomasina Miers, Giorgio Locatelli and Marcus Samuelsson shared sweet and savory dishes with date syrup, now collected in this cookbook”