Delights from the Garden of Eden
Nawal's Other Books
Deligths from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and a History of the Iraqi Cuisine.
First Edition (Paperback, Authorhouse, 2003.
Links to some of the reviews and articles:
Boston Globe Sunday Magazine: March 5, 2008
Al-Ittihad Newspaper, September 2009. (Arabic)
Al-Ittihad Newspaper, September 2009
(Arabic)
"The Definition of a Perfect Host," Food and Wine magazine, Nov. 2007
Dates: A Global History
(Hardcover, Edible Series, Reaktion books, 2011)
Book reviews:
Saudi Aramco World, March/April 2012, p. 41
Etihad Airlines of Abu Dhabi, In-Flight Magazine, June 2011
Al-Ittihad Newspaper, Muhammed Aref, August 2011 (Arabic)
The Guardian, Wednesday 23 January 2013 Homa Khaleeli, “Dates truly are the fruit of paradise.”
The Blessed Tree: Khalifa International Date Palm Award, vol. 5, no. 1 (March 2013): 69.
"The Historiography of Arab Cuisine: Issues and Perspectives"
The first ever written on this topic, published as a chapter (pp. 140-161) in Writing Food History: A Global Perspective (Berg Publisher, July 2012).
Beginner’s Iraqi Arabic with 2 Audio CDs.
Co-authored with Nadia Hassani (Paperback, Hippocrene Books, 2006)
From the back cover:
Designed for both classroom use and self-study. The 12 lessons combine dialogue with easy-to-follow grammatical explanations, and include vocabulary, cultural information, and exercises that reinforce the material covered. You do not need to know how to read in Arabic to use this book. All Arabic words are transliterated into roman script.
Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens
English translation of Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq’s tenth-century Baghdadi Cookbook (Hardcover, Brill, 2007)
Al-Ittihad Newspaper, September 2010 (Arabic)
"Understanding Culture" in Nursing and the Arts, 2009.
Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens
(Paperback, Brill, 2010)
"The 10th-Century Baghdad Cookbook That’s a Poetic Tome to Food," Oct. 3, 2018
"In Medieval Baghdad, Rulers Held Elite Cook-Offs," Jan. 30, 2019.
Listen to this podcast on
with host Marcus Smith, originally aired: Nov 20, 2018.