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Linda Dalal Sawaya
Author,
Alice’s Kitchen: My Grandmother Dalal
and Mother Alice’s Traditional Lebanese Cooking
Linda Dalal Sawaya, born and raised in Los Angeles is the youngest of five daughters of Lebanese immigrants. She grew up cooking, baking, gardening, and creating with her mother, Alice and grandmother, Dalal, which came to be her life passions. Learning the Lebanese culinary traditions passed down from mother to daughter for generations—traditions that were totally sustainable—eating organically grown food, in season, from the fertile and abundant eastern Mediterranean landscape that are now so popular in our local food scene and western culture, inspires her life.
Linda worked briefly as a professional chef in California and Portland; continues now as an artist, illustrator, and writer, as well as doing Lebanese cooking demonstrations and classes. She writes a food blog based on her internationally celebrated Lebanese family cookbook Alice's Kitchen: Traditional Lebanese Cooking originally published in 1997, revised and expanded in 2005.
Her new food blog, aliceskitchencookbook.blogspot.com, is based on these traditional family recipes—some of the healthiest in the world. Alice's Kitchen is authentic Lebanese home cooking at its best with more than 150 original recipes, from how to pick and cure olives to how to bake pocket bread. Sawaya provides excellent recipes seasoned with a generous amount of memoir. Her mother, Alice's mantra "If you make it with love, it will be delicious!" is inspiration for all.
Linda is featured in two cooking videos about Alice's Kitchen and demonstrating how to make vegetarian stuffed Lebanese squash by local producers of sustainable shows, Cooking Up a Story, which together have so far received over 60,000 YouTube views.
aliceskitchencookbook.blogspot.com
www.lindasawaya.com
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