Secrets of Heavenly Food

Author: Hajjah Naziha Adil Kabbani This unique speciality cook book is the full-color follow-up to her unique original, Heavenly Foods cook book. Containing over 150 recipes, the locales range from Cyprus, Lebanon, the Indian-subcontinent to Southeast Asia and even the USA. These delicious recipes vary in difficulty from simple to more involved. With step-by-step instructions and pictures it is possible for even a novice to successfully prepare the most complex dishes in this book. Introductions by the author's father, Shaykh Nazim, her husband, Shaykh Hisham, and herself, expound upon the connection between food and spirituality. The heart of this book is the legacy it conveys from Hajjah Amina, the author's mother, a scholar and a refugee from Russia. During the advent of communism, Hajjah Amina's family fled their native homeland of Kazan, Russia, in order to preserve their right to observe their religious faith, Islam. They sacrificed home, country, and language for the sake of the