bFrom the acclaimed chefs behind award-winning Los Angeles restaurant Bavel comes a gorgeous cookbook featuring personal stories and more than eighty recipes that celebrate the diversity of Middle Eastern cuisines.b pbOri and Genevieve manage to pull off a style of cooking that is both familiar and therefore comforting but also new and therefore fresh and exciting. This is the sort of food I could live on.--Yotam Ottolenghib pWhen chef Ori Menashe and pastry chef Genevieve Gergis opened their first Los Angeles restaurant, Bestia, the city fell in love. By the time they launched their second restaurant, Bavel, the love affair had expanded to cooks and food lovers nationwide. iBavel, i the cookbook, invites home cooks to explore the broad and varied cuisines of the Middle East through fragrant spice blends sublime zhougs, tahini, labneh, and hummus rainbows of crisp-pickled vegetables tender, oven-baked flatbreads fall-off-the-bone meats and tagines buttery pastries and tarts and so much