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Cookbooks for Culinary Travellers – The Middle East to Eastern Europe.

Cookbooks for Culinary Travellers – Middle East, Central Asia, Eastern Europe Edition

These cookbooks for culinary travellers on the cuisines of the Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe take readers on gastronomic journeys that give insights into local life, customs and traditions as much as they teach us delicious recipes from faraway places.

While Terence has been pounding Cambodian curry pastes and perfecting his Saraman curry in our Siem Reap kitchen, I’ve had my head buried in cookbooks, travelogues and historical tomes, researching and developing our Cambodian cookbook.

In doing so, I’ve come to realise that the cookbooks that engage me the most are those that evoke a sense of place, take the reader on a culinary journey through a country or region, and provide context, history, and insights into local life, customs and traditions, as much as they share family recipes and stories.

They’re cookbooks for culinary travellers as much as they are cookbooks for home cooks – books that you’d be just as happy browsing from the sofa on a Sunday afternoon as you would cooking from on a Saturday night.

NOTE: a click on the images of the books below will take you to Amazon, and depending upon your location automatically direct you to the closest store. If you make a purchase we earn a small commission.

This is the sixth instalment in our Christmas gift idea series. Click through for Classic Cookbooks for Serious Cooks for Christmas, Christmas Gifts for Asian Home Cooks, a Guide to Asian Kitchen Essentials, Christmas Gifts for Travel Photographers and Travellers Who Love Photography, Christmas Gifts for Picnic Lovers, and Travel Books to Inspire Wanderlust.

Cookbooks for Culinary Travellers – The Middle East to Eastern Europe

The following cookbooks for culinary travellers cover the exotic cuisines of the Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe – some Terence and I are very familiar with, others we haven’t yet had the opportunity to discover.

Cook For Syria

Syrian cuisine has long been one of our favourites, since our first taste of cherry kebabs in Aleppo. The country has had a special place in our hearts since our first trip back in 1999. The first travel guidebook we wrote for Lonely Planet was Syria and Lebanon and we criss-crossed the country to research that book, becoming smitten with Syria and Syrian people in the process. We’d love to be recommending a book of recipes by Syrian cooks (that day will come), but Cook for Syria is the next best thing for now and it tops my list of cookbooks for culinary travellers. #CookforSyria started as a fundraiser conceived by London-based Australian social media influencer, ‘Clerkenwell Boy’. Restaurants added Syrian dishes to their menus and donated profits from the dish to UNICEF’s Syria Fund. The initiative captured imaginations and charity dinners and supper clubs followed, along with this beautiful not-for-profit recipe book. All proceeds from sales are donated to UNICEF and contributors include chefs Fergus Henderson, Angela Hartnett, Jamie Oliver, Yotam Ottolenghi, and cookbook author Olia Hercules (see below).

The Palestinian Table

As a result of having Palestinian friends when we lived in Abu Dhabi and Dubai and adoring Palestinian films and the insight they gave into life there, I was desperate to eat Palestinian food in Palestine, especially when I learned many of the UAE’s Arabic restaurant kitchens were filled with Palestinian chefs. Unfortunately our UAE resident visas prohibited us from travelling to Israel, making things tricky. Soon after leaving the UAE, we were serendipitously commissioned to do a story that took us to Ramallah. Sadly, we didn’t have time to savour the food and interrogation by Israeli soldiers on the way back to Jerusalem deterred us from returning. One day… In the meantime, there’s The Palestinian Table by Reem Kassis to occupy me, with plenty of historical context, personal anecdotes and an insight into the Palestinian family kitchen. There are over 150 authentic Palestinian recipes – from breakfasts through to salads and dishes for celebratory feasts – inspired by three generations of family traditions, such as stuffed grape leaves with lamb chops, chicken stuffed with spiced rice, meat and pine nuts, and meat dumplings in cooked yoghurt sauce. This is one of the best cookbooks for culinary travellers who have munched their way through the Middle East but may not have made it to Palestine.

Mountain Berries and Desert Spice: Sweet Inspiration From the Hunza Valley to the Arabian Sea

Just as Palestinians staffed many Lebanese and Jordanian restaurants when we lived in the UAE, Pakistanis filled many Indian kitchens, although the UAE also had its fair share of Pakistani restaurants. Pakistani cuisine has subtle nuances that distinguish it from the cuisines of its neighbours, India, Afghanistan and Iran, as food writer and cooking instructor Sumayya Usmani reveals in Mountain Berries and Desert Spice: Sweet Inspiration From the Hunza Valley to the Arabian Sea, a follow up to her Summers Under the Tamarind Tree. In this book, Usmani explores the role of Pakistani desserts in the country’s culinary culture through 70 family recipes for everything from sugary treats that accompany coffee to extravagant desserts enjoyed at weddings. In doing so, she takes us on a culinary journey from Pakistan’s south, where influences from across the Arabian Sea can be tasted in saffron and cardamom-laced sweets, to the northern foothills of the mountainous Hindu Kush, where delights featuring locally grown fruit and berries are ubiquitous. This is one of the best cookbooks for culinary travellers for whom a meal is incomplete without dessert.

Chai, Chaat & Chutney: a Street Food Journey Through India

In Chai, Chaat and Chutney: a Street Food Journey Through India, cookbook author Chetna Makan, a former fashion designer with a passion for baking, takes readers with her on a culinary adventure as she explores the street food of cities from “the four corners of India” – Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, and Chennai. Taking inspiration from those very streets, Makan has created tantalising recipes that are easy to cook at home, including Southern street food favourites such as tamarind stuffed chillies and Sticky Bombay chicken to northern street food specialties like cardamom and pistachio kulfi and pani puri. I haven’t been back to India in an embarrassingly long time, despite having friends who live there, but browsing Makan’s book is seriously tempting me back. This is one of the best cookbooks for culinary travellers for whom a food adventure is best enjoyed from the footpath.

The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen

British-Iranian cook Yasmin Khan did what I dream of doing in my Russian grandparents homeland one day. Fuelled by memories of the family farm in the lush seaside province of Gilan, Khan travelled the length of the country, from Tehran, with its atmospheric cafés, to Tabriz and its stupendous mountains, with supposedly little more than a notebook and bottle of pomegranate molasses (well, some of us carry their own Sri Racha, right). During her quest to identify the most delicious recipes she could find, Khan was welcomed into the kitchens of everyone from farmers to artists, teachers to electricians, gaining an insight into the everyday lives of ordinary people, as much as their culinary secrets. The result, The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen is a collection of modern recipes rooted in old traditions and includes Persian specialties such as fesenjoon (chicken with walnuts and pomegranates) and kofte berenji (lamb meatballs stuffed with prunes and barberries). There are loads of vegetarian dishes, recipes for various flatbreads, and wonderful treats, such as a rose and almond cake. This is one of the best cookbooks for culinary travellers who dream of discovering Persia as much as Iran.

Samarkand: Recipes and Stories from Central Asia and The Caucasus

One of the oldest inhabited cities in Central Asia, at a crossroads on the Silk Road, with India to the south, China to the east and Persia to the West, Samarkand has at times been one of Central Asia’s most prosperous cities. Since Alexander the Great conquered it in 329 BC, countless invaders and traders – Greeks, Persians, Turks, Arabs, Chinese, Mongols, Russians, and more – have left their mark. It’s a cuisine and culinary culture that couldn’t be anything but intriguing to people like us. Yet Caroline Eden, who covered the region for years as a travel writer, and collaborated on this beautiful book with food writer-editor and recipe developer Eleanor Ford, said she was motivated to write it by the countless guidebooks that dismissed the cuisine as survival fare. Their focus in Samarkand: Recipes and Stories from Central Asia and The Caucasus is the food influenced by ethnic groups such as the Uzbeks, Tajiks, Russian, Turkis, Koryo-Saram, Jewish, Caucasus, Afghan – so expect to drool over mouth-watering images of lamb kebabs with cinnamon, cloves and hot hummus, and spicy meatballs with adjika and yoghurt. This is one of the best cookbooks for culinary travellers for whom food and travel are incomplete without the other.

Kaukasis: A Culinary Journey through Georgia, Azerbaijan & Beyond

Still in Central Asia, Georgia and Iran seem to be two of the hottest destinations right now in a region that is sizzling. Every chef, culinary writer and food-lover I know seems to have been or is heading to one of those two countries. And I’m so envious – both have been high on my wish list. Still kicking ourselves we didn’t get to Iran all those years we lived in the UAE. But I can travel there now through this award-winning cookbook Kaukasis: A Culinary Journey through Georgia, Azerbaijan & Beyond by Olia Hercules, who takes her readers on a tantalising adventure through the Caucasus – that exotic region that seems to serve as a cultural bridge between Europe and Asia. There are over 100 recipes for dishes from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, Turkey, and Iran. Even if you’re not familiar with the food of the area, you’ll recognise elements from more familiar dishes from Europe and the Middle East and gain a new appreciation for how food travels. This is one of the best cookbooks for culinary travellers who relish making sense of history through food.

Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking

As an Australian of Russian heritage who has travelled and eaten in Russia, I was so disappointed by the Russian food in New York. Fortunately, the food of Bonnie Morales, the owner-chef of a Russian restaurant in Portland in the US, called Kachka, looks so much more delicious (and fun!) compared to what we tried and reminds me of the food I grew up eating at my babouskha’s house. The just-released 400-page cookbook, Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking is crammed with recipes for Russian specialties – from platters of zakuski (drinking snacks) and chicken Kiev to kasha-stuffed suckling pig and a popular dish from her restaurant, Herring Under a Fur Coat. There are also recipes for drinks, including the restaurants Beet Cocktail and infused vodkas, as well as plenty of personal anecdotes and guides to everything from Russian tea culture to caviar, and instructions for drinking like a Russian. This is one of the best cookbooks for culinary travellers for whom there can be no eating without drinking. Read it with a bottle of Stoli and bowl of gherkins by your side.

Pssst… if you’re a culinary traveller considering a foodie adventure, we take participants on carefully curated culinary journeys in Cambodia, Vietnam and beyond. We host scheduled small group trips in the shoulder and low season and private trips on request throughout the year. We’re offering 10% off all remaining spots until the end of 2017 to fill our 2018 trips so we can take some time off to focus on our Cambodia cookbook. Click through to the link above for details.

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A travel and food writer who has experienced over 70 countries and written for The Guardian, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Feast, Delicious, National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel+Leisure Southeast Asia, DestinAsian, TIME, CNN, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, AFAR, Wanderlust, International Traveller, Get Lost, Four Seasons Magazine, Fah Thai, Sawasdee, and more, as well as authored more than 40 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, DK, Footprint, Rough Guides, Fodors, Thomas Cook, and AA Guides.

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/seafood-recipes-for-christmas-eve-and-christmas-day-menus/
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Merry Christmas if you’re celebrating!! 

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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

Merry Christmas!! X

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

Recipe collection here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio):
https://grantourismotravels.com/22-most-popular-egg-recipes-of-2022-from-weekend-eggs/

If you cook the recipe and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either in the comments at the end of the recipe or share a pic with us here.

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ‘Angkor’. 

And please do let us know if you’re coming to Siem Reap. We’d love to see you here x

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

If you cook it and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either here or in the comments at the end of the recipe on the site or share a pic with us x 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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