Sami Tamimi: Boustany

This week, we’re celebrating the food culture of Palestine with
one of its most vocal champions, Sami Tamimi


Sami’s first solo cookbook, Boustany, meaning 'my garden', is
about the abundance of vegetarian recipes that make up the heart
of Palestinian cooking. He and Yotam Ottolenghi, largely through
their first book, Jerusalem have done more to bring the food of
the Middle East to the world than anyone, and most of us will
know our way around a labneh or a pomegranate molasses by now.


Falastin, his cookbook co-written with Tara Wigley took him back
to his homeland to begin to tell the story of Palestinian food
culture, and in Boustany, he continues that mission. Gilly asks
him how he feels about chatting about Sumac roasted plums
with cardamom cream and pistachio when food is being weaponised
in his own backyard.


You can buy Boustany from the Cooking the Books shop at
Bookshop.org which supports independent
bookshops.https://uk.bookshop.org/a/2164/9781529916423


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