Gin A Tasting Course

Writing this book felt like starting my own version of Phileas Fogg’s adventure, setting off in his hot air balloon;

I grew up in an Italian family that, not unusually, put great import on food.

2020 was a year like no other.

I love Palestinian food. I probably love it more than any other cuisine.

I have been a child and adolescent psychologist for more than three decades and there is no doubt that things are not going swimmingly in terms of young people’s mental health.

Miriam gave things to Mokhtar.

I had one of my best and one of my worst days in the kitchen all in the same week.

Blood drips into my right eye. Once. Twice. It’s blinding and searing at the same time.

Ask any problem child how they feel about being dumped at their eighth school in five years and you’ll get about the same answer.

Hello, dear reader!

He has the impertinence to laugh, as if they’re old friends, not murderer and victim.

It happened to people, this longing, emerging from an unknown void, grabbing the soul with a firm hand, the urge to simply let go and sink to the depths of the ocean.