This is not a Cookbook.

Handmade book. Archival family photos and recipes. 2023

This is not a Cookbook is a collection of the family recipes I grew up eating. Some of the recipes were taught to me by my mother, my Appalachian born Grandma Loretta, or my Teta who immigrated to the United States from Lebanon in the 1970’s. This cookbook blends those recipes and food traditions together with some personal and political history to create a hybrid Appalachian/Arab cookbook with hand notated changes and updates.