Maydan

Home Cooking From The Middle East By Rose Previte With Marah Stets

The debut cookbook from Rose Previte, creator of the Michelin–starred restaurant Maydān and beloved Compass Rose, explores bold flavors, accessible, shareable recipes, and overlapping foodways, spanning from the Middle East to North Africa

Selling Points

BELOVED RESTAURANTS: Previte is the owner of Washington, DC’s Compass Rose and Maydān. Maydān has appeared on many “Best New Restaurants in America” lists, including Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, GQ, and Eater; was named a James Beard Award Semifinalist for Best New Restaurant in 2018; and earned a Michelin Star in 2019. With plans to open a food hall and a second location of Maydān in Los Angeles, along with a fast–casual chain called Kirby Club with multiple US locations, Previte will soon have an established bicoastal presence.

STRONG CATEGORY: From Ottolenghi’s bestselling titles to recent publications like Sababa, Middle Eastern food has been a hot topic and shows no sign of stopping.

Dynamic And Respected

Rose Previte introduces readers to the eclectic cultures of the region spanning North Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East through food, offering a nuanced, informed, and yet entirely warm and personal way in. Before opening her beloved Washington, DC, restaurants Maydān and Compass Rose, Previte traveled old spice trade routes to learn from home cooks, and it became apparent how adjacent cooking traditions informed and folded back on one another, creating a constant dialogue. And in that vein, the word maydān, which can be loosely translated as gathering place, has roots in a number of languages and has been crossing borders for generations, from Tangier to Tehran and from Beirut to Batumi.

With more than 150 recipes, Maydān offers guidance on: how to build our own tables, taking cues from the way Previte’s Lebanese family ate growing up and from what she has learned on her travels; emphasizing mixing and matching; scaling up or down; making a weeknight meal such as Tunisian Chicken Skewers with Loobieh bi Zeit (Green Bean Salad); creating the ideal spread of Lebanese small plates for entertaining guests; and a project day (Khachapuri, paired with one of the easy–to–source Georgian wines Rose recommends). Both accessible and delicious, the food in this cookbook is perfectly suited to the home cook because it is not fussy, and everything on the table is meant to be shared.

Rose Previte is the owner of two of Washington, DC’s acclaimed restaurants: Compass Rose and the Michelin–starred Maydān. Maydān quickly earned coveted spots on many national “Best New Restaurants in America” lists, including Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, GQ,and Eater; was named a James Beard Award Semifinalist for Best New Restaurant in 2018; and earned a Michelin Star in 2019. She lives in Washington, DC.

Marah Stets is a bestselling cookbook writer and editor based in Washington, DC.

AUTHOR: Previte boasts deep media connections, aided by her husband David Greene’s time as host of NPR’s Morning Edition, and is experienced at hosting events that would translate into bookselling opportunities. She is a leader in her community, speaking on panels in support of women in business, among other subjects, and maintains close connections with the embassies of the countries whose food is featured on her menus.

Specifications

*125 full-color images

* 256 pages

* WIDTH: 8" - 203mm

* HEIGHT: 10" - 254mm

* Hardcover POB

PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER 2023

FOOD & DRINK, ENTERTAINMENT, TRAVEL

ISBN 978-1-4197-6313-7

US $40.00

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