Baskadia

Diana AbuJaber s vibrant humorous memoir weaves together delicious food memories that illuminate the two cultures of her childhood American and Jordanian Here are stories of being raised by a foodobsessed Jordanian father and tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert These sensuously evoked repasts complete with recipes paint a loving and complex portrait of Diana s impractical displaced imm