Adebut cookbook from Imad Alarnab comes with a huge weight of expectation.
Yes, he’s an experienced restaurateur and brilliant chef, but he also embarked on an epic, dangerous mission to escape war in Syria to come to the UK. He slept on church stairs, wandered Parisian streets with a backpack containing his worldly possessions. He cooked and fed hundreds of fellow refugees in camps with the most spartan equipment and basic ingredients. There is so much to cover, might Imad’s stories overshadow the recipes, or vice versa?
In fact, no. In his eponymous book, Imad shares recipes beautifully interwoven with his story. His life has been so mindblowing that the accompanying words, often brief, almost feel understated, but this only adds to their strength and
