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Noor Murad | Dishes & Stories From My Middle East

2025/5/20
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我从小就梦想写一本食谱，这源于我儿时阅读母亲收藏的经典食谱书籍的经历，那些食谱激发了我无限的想象力，让我对烹饪充满了热情。 在加入Ottolenghi Test Kitchen后，我真正踏入了出版行业，并找到了我的归属。 《卢格玛》这本书倾注了我毕生的心血，它讲述了我童年在巴林的成长故事，以及巴林美食文化对我的影响。巴林地处重要的海港和贸易中心，其美食融合了印度、波斯和阿拉伯三种主要风味，形成了独特的烹饪风格。我希望能通过这本书，将巴林独特的美食文化和故事分享给世界，让更多人了解这片土地。 巴林美食的特点是朴实、舒适，但有些食谱的配料表很长，包含很多香料，而且每个家庭都有自己独特的烹饪方法。巴林作为岛屿国家，海鲜是重要的食材，通常会加入大量香料。从慢炖菜到炭火烧烤，巴林的烹饪方式多样，体现了其丰富的饮食文化。 大米是巴林的主食，通过贸易引进，现在已成为餐桌上必不可少的食物。我书中介绍了一些巴林的特色菜肴，例如madruba（一种鸡肉米饭菜肴）和fagata（一道独特的巴林菜肴），这些菜肴的制作过程复杂，但风味层次丰富，吃起来让人感到温暖和舒适。 在创作《卢格玛》的食谱时，我不仅注重菜肴本身，更注重菜肴背后的故事和情感。我将个人经历和情感融入其中，希望读者在烹饪的过程中，也能感受到食物背后的文化和情感。 我非常重视阿拉伯语和巴林方言在我的书中的体现，因为阿拉伯语是我从小学习的第一语言，它与我的身份认同紧密相连。我尝试在书中展现巴林阿拉伯语的特色，让读者更好地了解巴林的语言文化。 黑柠檬是海湾地区、伊朗和伊拉克烹饪的基石，用途广泛，我希望能将黑柠檬推广到西方，让更多人了解并使用这种神奇的香料。 在社交媒体方面，我既爱又恨，它既是分享美食文化的途径，也存在一些负面影响。我鼓励大家回归传统烹饪，感受食物的真实和美好。 我的母亲是英国人，她的英国烹饪传统也影响着我的烹饪风格。在书中，我融合了英国和中东的烹饪元素，创造出一些独特的菜肴。

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There’s a building in North London, built from equal parts brick and tahini, with walls coated in olive oil and floors stained with spice. This is the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen, where a group of individuals meet and eat, cook and write, tear and share and gather with just one motive: to create good food with good ingredients, and to share it with the world.

Chef and author Noor Murad joined the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen in 2018, eventually becoming its head and the writer of its books, “Shelf Love” and “Extra Good Things.” Bahrain-born, London-based and New York-trained, Noor’s own recipes have been featured in the New York Times, and she’s cooked on BBC's Saturday Kitchen. Her Middle Eastern roots have a strong influence on her cooking, with Arabic, Indian, and Persian flavors making a prominent appearance in her recipes.

Noor joins Google to discuss her book “Lugma: Abundant Dishes & Stories from my Middle East.” Lugma is an Arabic word that means, “a bite.” The book offers over 100 recipes as an ode to the food she grew up eating—traditional flavors and modern dishes from Bahrain, the surrounding Middle East, and beyond.

Watch this episode at youtube.com/TalksAtGoogle).