{"id":12479,"date":"2019-02-23T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T11:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/?p=12479"},"modified":"2019-03-26T00:05:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T23:05:43","slug":"food-special-guest-will-be-anissa-helou-the-acclaimed-chef-and-author-of-bestsellers-of-middle-eastern-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/en\/food-special-guest-will-be-anissa-helou-the-acclaimed-chef-and-author-of-bestsellers-of-middle-eastern-cuisine\/","title":{"rendered":"Food special guest will be ANISSA HELOU, the acclaimed chef and author of bestsellers of Middle Eastern cuisine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Anissa Helou will be in Florence with a presentation of her last book &#8220;Feast: Food of the Islamic World&#8221;, and a special cooking demonstration dedicated to the different ways of making bread in the Islamic world.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Saturday, April 6 (10:30am \/ 1:00pm) at the Cordon Bleu School<\/strong>.<br \/>\nFor info and reservations: info@middleastnow.it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anissa Helou (www.anissas.com) is a chef, food writer, journalist, broadcaster, consultant and blogger focusing on the cuisines and culinary heritage of the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa. Born and raised between Beirut, Lebanon, and Mashta el-Helou, Syria, she knows the Mediterranean as only a well-traveled native can. Ms. Helou is the author of numerous award-winning cookbooks including Sweet Middle East, Levant, The Fifth Quarter, An Offal Cookbook; Modern Mezze; Savory Baking from the Mediterranean; Mediterranean Street Food; Caf\u00e9 Morocco; and Lebanese Cuisine, which was a finalist for the prestigious Andre Simon awards and chosen as one of the Los Angeles Times\u2019 favorite books in 1998. Lebanese Cuisine remains the classic and most comprehensive work on this increasingly popular cuisine. The Fifth Quarter, An Offal Cookbook; Modern Mezze; and Mediterranean Street Food have received Gourmand World Cookbook awards. The latter was included in Food &amp; Wine magazine\u2019s selection of the Best of the Best for 2002. Savory Baking from the Mediterranean, was chosen by NPR, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Food &amp; Wine as one of the best cookbooks for 2007 and Levant was chosen as best of the year by several publications including the Observer Food Monthly and Australian Gourmet Traveller. Her new book, Feast: The Food of the Islamic World, was published to great acclaim by Ecco in May 2018 and has been short-listed for the very prestigious Art of Eating award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Anissa-Helou_on-library-steps-in-loft-kitchen.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12843\" src=\"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Anissa-Helou_on-library-steps-in-loft-kitchen-1024x686.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Anissa-Helou_on-library-steps-in-loft-kitchen-1024x686.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Anissa-Helou_on-library-steps-in-loft-kitchen-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Anissa-Helou_on-library-steps-in-loft-kitchen-768x515.jpeg 768w, 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href=\"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Harem_Bread_042.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12840\" src=\"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Harem_Bread_042-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Harem_Bread_042-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Harem_Bread_042-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Harem_Bread_042-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Harem_Bread_042-336x420.jpeg 336w, https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Harem_Bread_042-432x540.jpeg 432w, https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Harem_Bread_042-624x780.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Harem_Bread_042-117x146.jpeg 117w, 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