I loved everything about this cookbook. It checks all the boxes! Beautiful photos, simple recipes, complex recipes and most of all there is a recipe for every type of eater or diet. I love all of the dip selections and soups! The mudhammara pasta is outstanding and so inventive!!

A very nice cookbook with a logical presentation. I was dubious that I could cook this kind of food living in a small town without access to exotic ingredients, but Al-Saigh has anticipated issues like this and gives the aspirational cook a lot of different choices. There are many recipes that I would love to try and her writing style is warm and encouraging. I think it is a useful addition to the genre.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advance copy of this cookbook. I found it to be very user-friendly and that's essential in a cookbook for most of us!

Thank you to NetGalley for the ebook in exchange for an honest review.

I was instantly attracted by the title of this. I enjoyed the colors and the design of it, the font of the titles, the was the images and recipes were divided. It was clear, appetising and nice to look at. Now for the important part of the recipes, I loved it. I tried a couple of easy ones already and am looking forward to trying some more adventurous ones soon.
The salad recipes were great, as well as the rice ones, the dips, and the soups but I’m very excited to try to make the cauliflower fritters. The lahm bajeen, the fatayer, the batata harra are on my list too.

The dishes that are “worth the effort” were interesting but ones that are way down on my list due to the difficulty but still, they look good so it’s nice to dream.

I received an ARC of this cookbook from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a wonderful cookbook. It's filled with recipes that are delicious!

Souk to Table is a book of vibrant Middle Eastern dishes for everyday meals.

Author Amina Al-Saigh grew up with family dinnertimes of delicious dishes cooked from scratch by her Iraqi mum. She started a food blog of her own when on maternity leave for her first child, on which she published Middle Eastern recipes with measurements (as many people from the previous generation cooked with their senses rather than precise quantities) as well as helpful tips and tricks on how to make the process easier and faster.

The book is divided into several sections. "My Middle Eastern Pantry" presents the pantry and fridge ingredients used throughout the recipes in this book. After this follow the recipes themselves, divided into the following categories: "Condiments and Dips", "Salads and Sides", "Main Dishes in 30 Minutes", "Main Dishes in 1 Hour", "Main Dishes Worth the Effort", "Main Dishes Soups & Stews", and "Desserts and Drinks"

The dishes are beautifully photographed and notes on alternative ingredients or methods are included for most of the recipes. Her cauliflower fritters were a big hit with my kids, and I can't wait to try the sheet-pan chicken shawarma and the one-pot shrimp and rice!

A recommended read for people who would love to cook like Ottolenghi but are short on time.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Beautiful photos of every recipe! I learned a lot from this cookbook about how to use spices like Saffron. I brought some home from Morocco- glad I hadn’t sure is yet or I would not have used it properly.

A goregous cookbook full of recipes that I am dying to make and eat! The pictures are so vibrant, and the food looks like it could jump right onto my table.

4.5⭐ I love this cookbook! It has so many great recipes in it. And each recipe has a full page photograph to go with, so you can see the delicious dish before you make it! There are 100 mouth-watering recipes in this book, and I'm planning to work through as many as I can.

Her layout for each recipe is easy to read, and her instructions are easy to follow. There's a very informative section at the front of the book describing all the pantry items you will need for these recipes. Most items can be found in your local grocery store.

I love lamb tagine, and have been making it for many years. Amina's recipe is very similar to mine. I use apricots and raisins, she uses prunes. Next time I'm going to try prunes!

Amina is also a food blogger, @hungrypaprikas , where some of these recipes are featured, along with beautiful photos! She is first generation Arab Canadian and has offered up recipes for meals she made with her family while growing up. It doesn't get any better than this!

Thank you Amina Al-Saigh and NetGalley for this ARC. The above is my own and personal opinion.

I would give this cookbook ten stars if possible; everything is incredible, from the recipes to the photos! The recipes are easy to follow and flavourful, and the cookbook is organized incredibly well, so it's easy to understand and find recipes from quick mains for weeknights to longer weekend recipes. I recommend this cookbook to anyone looking to venture out of their comfort zone or get a great cookbook with accessible, delicious, crowd-pleasing favourites!

The presentation of the recipes was great and multiple looked really interesting to try. And more vegetarian than I expected. This would be a good gift.

This is a gorgeous cookbook full of recipes I can't wait to make! I love how the book categorizes recipes in an easy to navigate way. I enjoyed the photos of the dishes and want a copy for my brother who likes to cook. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

The author promises easy, quick, and accessible Middle-Eastern inspired recipes and in my opinion she absolutely delivered on that front. On top of that, the photographies that accompany the book are gorgeous and mouthwatering.

Souk to Table is a well written, appealing, and traditional general Middle Eastern cookbook with recipes collected and developed by Amina Al-Saigh. Due out 8th Oct 2024 from Quarto on their Rock Point imprint, it's 256 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.

Besides the generosity of spirit and hospitality deeply tied to food traditions in the Middle Eastern countries, the food is beautiful to look at, exotic for many folks who live in North America, and importantly, deliciously healthy.

The author has collected recipes from the whole Middle East, adjusted them slightly in some areas to make the ingredients more easily sourced for western readers, and written them down in an accessible way.

The recipes are arranged thematically: condiments & dips, salads & sides, 30 minute dishes, 1 hour, "worth the effort" (more complex/time consuming), soups & stews, and drinks & desserts. Each recipe is written with an introduction and area from which it comes, yields, estimated prep time, bullet list of ingredients, and step by step prep and cooking directions. Ingredient measures are given in imperial (American) measurements with metric measures in parentheses (yay!).

Most of the ingredients will be readily available at well stocked international type grocery stores, or larger urban grocers in most of North America/Europe.

A high point of the book is the excellent photography throughout. The food is attractively and professionally styled and photographed in color. The author has also used a fair amount of effort to provide a comprehensive pantry list and spice/seasoning primer for general audiences.

The cross referenced index includes ingredients by single entry, for easy lookup of particular recipes. (Don't know why this isn't -standard- in all cookbooks!).

Five stars. This would be an excellent choice for public library acquisition, home use, or gift giving.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

I shall say very sincerely that everything in this book is mouthwatering.
Years ago, I was so in love with the food in a Middle Eastern restaurant in a European city, and never since have seen the same quality of recipes, food and representation of those recipes/meals until this book.
I am so getting this, and also gifting this when it is released.

This is such a great cookbook! I will no longer have to miss the tastes of my childhood!

I love that it has all different Middle Eastern countries together so that I can try the versions of the good food I grew up with!

4⭐️. Beautiful cover!!! With a good variety of unique recipes that I have not heard of but will definitely be trying! Made me excited to get started on dinner tonight