Sitto's Kitchen
Formats: Paperback
Ages: 18+
Sitto's Kitchen, A Treasury of Syrian Family Recipes Taught from Mother to Daughter for Over 100 Years, contains the original recipes and memories carried by the author's grandmother onto the shores of Ellis Island in 1912.
Sitto's Kitchen Cookbook features more than 165 recipes and over 100 full color appetizing photos of these delicious foods. It will take the reader, even a novice cook, on a homespun adventure in Middle Eastern cookery, as it has been prepared for generations!
Culinary delights, from an Aleppo breakfast of butter-soft turnovers to after-dinner Arab coffee and sweets, highlight this unique cuisine. Tantalizing Tamarind Meatballs, Open Meat Pies, aromatic Rice and Lentil Pilaf with caramelized onions and Syrian Stuffing are mouth-watering. Phyllo-encrusted Spinach Rolls, healthy vegetable soups, salads and grains, including several Bulgar Wheat dishes, will satisfy vegetarians. Appetizers and desserts include traditional favorites enjoyed all over the Levant!
Sitto’s Kitchen is Middle Eastern cooking with no mystery, simply prepared and traditionally preserved by generations of cooks who lovingly served these humble dishes to their families. Ahlan! To all who wish that they too, had a grandmother, “Sitto,” in their kitchen!
Reviews
merna Love the Cookbook. Great Recipes! Great Stories! A Keeper!! I have a whole collection of Middle Eastern Cookbooks that I bought over the years and this one is the best of all! I have finally ended my search for the perfect Syrian cookbook. My mother was such an excellent cook but never wrote down her recipes. I have such vivid childhood memories of my mother, aunts and grandmother (Sitto) kneading dough, rolling yebret and stuffing squash at the kitchen table while chatting and catching up on all the news of South Paterson. My uncles would just "drop by" (no phone call or invite was necessary) on Friday nights or Saturdays and would be treated to whatever was on the stove that day. I highly recommend this cookbook. The recipes are delicious and very easy to follow.
Emily-Jane Hills Orford Reviewed for Readers' Favorite A Wonderful Treasure Full of Recipes and Stories! Janice Jweid Reed’s book, Sitto’s Kitchen: A Treasury of Syrian Family Recipes Taught from Mother to Daughter for Over 100 Years, is more than a cookbook. It’s a collection of family memories soaked in the creation of traditional Syrian foods. I love the way the author introduces Sitto, Arabic for grandmother, and her origins in Aleppo, Syria, a thriving community now devastated and left in ruins by the ongoing strife in Syria. The author continues with a short biography of her grandmother, who moved to the United States as a young teenager. Later, the author explains how she, as a teenager and later a mother living across the country, far from her family, would listen and learn about traditional Syrian foods, jotting things down in a spiral notebook. Her jottings developed into this cookbook/memoir, a treasury of good food and family times.
