Restaurant quality recipes. I made many meals from this book in the 80's and ALWAYS received accolades for these recipes. I'm an american who married and arab and e would have crowds of people we would cook for. This book helped a newlywed out at a time that I was just learning the delicious foods they made and wanted to cook from a culture that is quite different from ours at the time. The hummus, TABOULEH, etc are exceptional recipes, yum Yum!