My Tel Aviv Table: A Journey of Flavours and Aromas From a Sun-Soaked City

• Author: Limor Chen
• Genre: Cookbook
• Publication Date: November 14, 2023
• Publisher: Nourish

Thank you to NetGalley and Nourish for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Publishers Weekly Top 10 Food & Cookery Pick for 2023

From the creator of the beloved Delamina restaurants, this is a collection of healthy home-style recipes packed with the flavours, aromas and stories of Tel Aviv.

“Limor Chen’s beautiful book bursts with exciting combinations and enticing flavours” – Claudia Roden

Limor Chen is known for serving up fragrant, exciting and vibrant dishes to transport you to sun-soaked Tel Aviv. In her debut cookbook gorgeously presented in real cloth-bound hardback, Limor shares her wholesome cooking style, one that centres on health and freshness, ensuring that each recipe is packed with flavour and fragrance while remaining light and nourishing.

These recipes represent the authentic cooking of a food capital of the world, a cultural melting pot of cuisines and inhabitants, ingredients and

With the best of Limor’s family’s recipes that evoke the spirit of her home city, this a cookbook that you’ll return to time and again for a taste of Tel Aviv.

Tel Aviv is a beautiful city, and sun-soaked is a great way to describe it. I remember the many cafes and restaurants that line the streets from when I visited, and we ate at a few of them and it absolutely blew my mind how good the food was. So naturally, I got very excited about this book.

The author starts off by describing her connection to Tel Aviv, and her family’s history. Her mother’s family was from Israel, with roots in Eastern Europe, and her father emigrated from Iran, so there was quite the combination of cultural influence in her family’s cooking. Ultimately, her love for cooking led her and her husband to open several restaurants highlighting the kind of foods that are featured in this book. In addition, her mother focused on natural foods and healthy eating, so it became an ingrained habit, and Chen passes that on in these recipes.

After explaining how to use this book, and some of the more common ingredients, Chen divides the book into chapters such as brunch and dips, vegetables and salads, hero dishes and sharing plates, sweet things, drinks, and cupboard essentials (which includes spreads and preserves). Something I noticed very quickly was that none of the recipes involved any advanced techniques, so they are all perfect for someone who isn’t a professional chef, but isn’t quite a beginner in the kitchen.

Chen’s devotion to healthy and fresh foods shines through in all of her recipes. The ingredient lists are often long, but most of the items are herbs and spices. Some of the ingredients require a trip to a specialty store, such as a Middle Eastern shop, to obtain, but so many of the recipes sounded (and looked) delicious. Each recipe has a stunning photograph to accompany it, which was greatly appreciated, as I am the kind of person who likes to know what a recipe is supposed to look like when preparing it. I bookmarked a lot of these recipes, and will definitely be making plenty of them in the near future.

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