The Red Sea Cookbook: Over 100 family recipes and stories from Saudi Arabia
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This cookbook is a fascinating and mouth-watering celebration of Saudi Arabia's astonishing culinary diversity and traditions. Madeeha Qureshi presents over 100 easy, generous and heartfelt recipes, which are authentic and modern at the same time. More than this, The Red Sea Cookbook is a daughter’s moving tribute to the redemptive power of cooking and to her father’s memories. Through incredibly delicious condiments, small plates, salads, mains, cakes and bakes, desserts and drinks, explore the historic voyage of ingredients and how food passes through generations. Each recipe brings to life the generosity of the beautiful land and people of Saudi Arabia. This is a one-of-a-kind treasure trove of flavours and aromas.
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About this book
The Red Sea Cookbook collects over 100 recipes from across Saudi Arabia, written by Madeeha Qureshi, a MasterChef finalist. The book covers condiments, small plates, salads, main dishes, cakes, baked goods, desserts, and drinks. Qureshi presents each recipe as both authentic to its origins and accessible for home cooks working outside the region, aiming to reflect the range of cooking traditions found across the Arabian Peninsula.
Alongside the recipes, Qureshi shares personal and family stories. The book is shaped in part as a tribute to her father, and cooking serves as a thread connecting generations within her family. Many of the dishes trace how particular ingredients and techniques have traveled through time and across borders, arriving at the table through long histories of trade and migration along the Red Sea coast and beyond.
Saudi Arabia's western coastline stretches roughly 1,800 kilometers along the Red Sea, and the port cities along it have historically linked the peninsula to East Africa, Egypt, and South Asia. The cookbook draws on this geographic position, presenting food as a record of those connections rather than as a sealed national tradition.
