
Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook
Tom Verde
Karim Alrawi. Il. Nahid Kazemi.
Crocodile Books, 2021.
“Nothing heals the body like a good meal, and nothing soothes the soul like a good story.”
—Excerpt from epigraph to Arab Fairy Tale Feasts, by Karim Alrawi
-TOM VERDE
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