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The Iraqi Cookbook
by
Lamees Ibrahim

Published 2009
Stacey International, London
Interlink Publishing Group, Northampton, Massachusetts
302 pages, hardback

Iraq has one of the world’s most ancient cuisines, thanks to its two great rivers and the irrigation systems that fed the fertile soils of Mesopotamia.

The country’s history, and its position as a focus of trading and cultural interactions, produced over the centuries many exchanges of culinary influences.

But the past decades of political upheavals, war and mass migration have taken their toll on agricultural production and on social and cultural patterns.

Millions of Iraqis have been scattered abroad, and it has become more difficult for culinary skills to be passed down the generations.

It was a perceived need to provide the younger generation of Iraqis living outside their country with access to their culinary heritage that prompted Lamees Ibrahim [pictured], a London-based Iraqi medical doctor, to write The