Yasmin Khan is an award-winning author, broadcaster and human rights campaigner. Her critically-acclaimed books, The Saffron Tales, Zaitoun and Ripe Figs use everyday stories to human connection to challenge stereotypes of the Middle East and celebrate beauty in places more commonly associated with conflict.

In Ripe Figs, travel writer and cook Yasmin Khan travels through the Eastern Mediterranean tracing recipes that have spread through the region, from the time of Ottoman rule, to the influence of recent refugee communities today. Her recipes unite around thickets of dill and bunches of oregano, zesty citrus and sweet dates, thick tahini and ...

Armed with little more than a notebook and a bottle of pomegranate molasses, and fueled by memories of her family’s farm in the lush seaside province of Gilan, British-Iranian cook Yasmin Khan traversed Iran in search of the most delicious recipes for this Persian cookbook.

Ripe Figs publication day! The story behind why I wrote this book

‘Once again, Yasmin Khan invites her readers to the table for both the dishes she serves and the stories she tells, serving food which is delicious and celebratory, as well as hard-hitting but hopeful stories’ Yotam Ottolenghi

BBC Radio 4: Yasmin Khan, pin cushion, Putney. BBC Radio 6 Music: Yasmin Khan with Cerys. Milk Street: The search for the perfect falafel. Keep Calm and Cook on with Julia Turshen: Food as conversation. Roads and Kingdoms: Yasmin Khan cooks her way through Palestine. Cherry Bombe: Hummus and Humanity.

Feb 4, 2019 · An intimate dinner with recipes from Zaitoun, followed by a conversation between Yasmin Khan and Reem Assil.

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