I read widely and compulsively and my fancies are ever changing. My love of reading, however, is no mere fancy.
This is a good Middle Eastern cookbook and contains all of the standard recipes and a few that were new to my eyes. However, if you already have The New Book of Middle Eastern Food or The Arab Table: Recipes and Culinary Traditions in your collection, you will probably find, as I did, that this book is redundant, and lacking in scholarship.