At a friends yesterday, looking at her copy of the late great #TessMallos’s “Middle Eastern Food”, first published in 1979, a brilliant useful book that, unusually for the time, didn’t dodge unusual ingredients or complex methods, or gloss-up bare simple dishes. Reflecting back on what a mature cookery book it was for that time, and about all the small family run restaurants in melbourne from different immigrant communities that helped with it. If you get to visit #Melbourne ever, do visit the @immigrationmuseum_melb, so many stories there that will add background to the lives of the families who helped Mallos with this book, very generously thanked after the foreword
