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Once Upon a Spice: The Everyday Kitchen Edition
Paperback
Series: Fabled Feasts, Book 1
Culinary BiographiesMiddle Eastern Cooking
Publisher Price: $98.67
Publisher: Sufra Heritage Press
Published: Dec 15 2025
Pages: 686
Weight: 3.98
Height: 1.86 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Once Upon a Spice: The Everyday Kitchen Edition is a Lebanese culinary epic that blends 60+ heirloom recipes, family memoir, and a mythic time-travel novel into one unforgettable experience.
It's a book for anyone who has ever longed for a taste of home-or feared their heritage might disappear.
If you love Lebanese food, magical realism, ancestral storytelling, or rich sensory writing, this book was written for you.⭐ Why Readers Fall in Love With This BookBecause it gives them what most cookbooks don't: context, emotion, and the stories behind the dishes.
Inside, you'll travel with the author through Lebanon, Zambia, and South Africa, discovering how migrations, matrilineal wisdom, and kitchen rituals preserved a culture across generations.
You'll meet Noura, a modern Beirut chef who slips back into ancient Phoenicia during the sacred Hieros Gamos. Her journey through palace intrigue, mystical talismans, and forbidden love reveals how recipes become memory-and memory becomes survival.
And you'll cook through a full Levantine grimoire of ritual dishes, heritage meals, and Phoenician-inspired feasts, each with cultural notes and full-color photographs.
This is not just a cookbook.
Not just a novel.
Not just a memoir.
It's a cultural inheritance.
⭐ What You'll Get (Front-Loaded Benefits Buyers Can't Miss)✔ 60+ authentic Lebanese & Levantine recipes
✔ Rich cultural notes & ancestral stories
✔ A sensory, mythic novel woven through the recipes
✔ Migration and diaspora memoir chapters
✔ Full-color photographs throughout
✔ Rare techniques & dishes not found in mainstream Middle Eastern books
✔ The meaning and practice of the ancient food philosophy of Rouh wa Nafas-the soul & breath of Lebanese cooking
⭐ This Edition Is Made for Real KitchensThis Everyday Kitchen Edition contains every story, recipe, and photograph from the author's acclaimed Heirloom Edition-reimagined in a lighter, more affordable format for daily use.
Perfect for families, gift-giving, and anyone who wants to cook with memory rather than measurement.
⭐ A Book to Keep. A Book to Give.Ideal for:
- Lebanese diaspora families
- Home cooks preserving heritage
- Fans of Madeline Miller, Diana Abu-Jaber, Bhanu Kapil, Laura Esquivel
- Cookbook collectors seeking authenticity
- Readers who crave stories rooted in place, history, and myth
If you've ever wished someone wrote down your grandmother's recipes-this is that book.
⭐ Proven SuccessThe Limited Heirloom Edition of Once Upon a Spice debuted as a #1 New Release in Arab & Middle Eastern Biographies and reached the Top 100 in multiple culinary and cultural categories.
This Everyday Kitchen Edition carries forward that legacy in a format meant to be held, used, stained, loved, and handed down.
⭐ For kitchens far from home. For recipes that refuse to be forgotten. For the diaspora that cooks with longing.Also in
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