The Immigrant Cookbook

The Immigrant Cookbook: Recipes that Make America Great
 
Wy We Love This Book: We love to tell the immingrant story and the amazing cuisine of the United States is built on immagrant foundations to this day. Saami Somi finds itself in the midst of this traditon bringing our culutural roots to the mixing pot that is the American landscape. We love to share the stories and points of views through the immigrant lense, wherever folks come from and find themselves. And what better way to start the story than through food.
 
The Immigrant Cookbook: Recipes that Make America Great offers a culinary celebration of the many ethnic groups that have contributed to America’s vibrant food culture. This beautifully photographed cookbook features appetizers, entrees, and desserts—some familiar favorites, some likely to be new encounters—by renowned chefs from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe.
 
Along with their hopes and dreams, they brought valuable gifts: recipes from their homelands that transformed the way America eats. What would the Southwest be without its piquant green chili pepper sauces and stews, New York City without its iconic Jewish delis, Dearborn without its Arab eateries, or Louisiana without the Creole and Cajun flavors of its signature gumbos and jambalayas? Imagine an America without pizza or pad Thai, hummus or hot dogs, sushi or strudel—for most people, it wouldn’t taste much like America at all. In these times of troubling anti-immigrant rhetoric,