Kitchen Arabic: How my Family Came to America and the Recipes We Brought with Us
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- Title
- Kitchen Arabic: How my Family Came to America and the Recipes We Brought with Us
- Author/Editor(s)
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Geha, Joseph
- Date
- 2023
- Publisher
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Athens: The University of Georgia Press
- Call Number
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Funk TX725.M628 G44 2023
- Catalog Link
- https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99955308514305899
- Description
- Kitchen Arabic is both a memoir and a cookbook by Joseph Geha, a Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at Iowa State University. The book captures Geha's early life as an immigrant in the Little Syria neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio, and his family's struggle to adapt to a new environment. Additionally, it is a collection of traditional Syro-Lebanese recipes, a treasured part of Geha's mother's heritage that remained constant despite changes in time and location. Geha emphasizes the vital role food plays in maintaining a connection to heritage, providing comfort, joy, and love, and transcending the need for spoken communication.
