The Culinary Crescent

The Fertile Crescent region—the swath of land comprising a vast portion of today’s Middle East—has long been regarded as pivotal to the rise of civilization. Alongside the story of human development, innovation, and progress, there is a culinary tradition of equal richness and importance.                      In The Culinary Crescent: A History of Middle Eastern Cuisine , Peter Heine combines years of scholarship with a p