Winner of the Gourmand Best Arab Cuisine Cookbook Award

Lebanon offers a unique variety of fragrant and refined dishes, enriched over centuries by new flavours and spices brought by traders from across the Mediterranean. Appreciated the world over, Lebanese cuisine is renowned for its savoury and sweet specialities: from falafel, tabbouleh, spicy grills and simmered stews, to succulent rose and pistachio pastries.

Andrée Maalouf and Karim Haïdar (Comptoir Libanais) share this rich culinary heritage through more than one hundred easy-to-follow recipes, along with an explanation of key ingredients and their place in Lebanese cooking. Traditional recipes have been subtly re-interpreted with a modern twist, which will delight lovers of Lebanese cuisine of all generations.

This is authentic Mediterranean food at its best – perfect for everyday eating and entertaining alike.


Andrée Maalouf is passionate about food. She moved to France thirty years ago, and has since adapted the culinary tradition of Lebanon to suit the tastes and produce of today.

Renowned chef Karim Haïdar is noted for reinventing Lebanese cuisine and giving new life to forgotten recipes. Haïdar revitalised the award-winning restaurant Fakhreddine in London and was a founding partner of the Liza restaurant in Paris. He recently launched La Branche d’Olivier in Paris and the popular food chain Comptoir Libanais in London.