Once Upon a Spice

What if your grandmother's recipes could time-travel-and take you with them?

Once Upon a Spice: The Everyday Kitchen Edition is a Lebanese culinary epic that blends 60+ heirloom recipes, family memoir, and a mythic time-travel novel into one unforgettable experience.

It's a book for anyone who has ever longed for a taste of home-or feared their heritage might disappear.

If you love Lebanese food, magical realism, ancestral storytelling, or rich sensory writing, this book was written for you.⭐ Why Readers Fall in Love With This Book

Because it gives them what most cookbooks don't: context, emotion, and the stories behind the dishes.

Inside, you'll travel with the author through Lebanon, Zambia, and South Africa, discovering how migrations, matrilineal wisdom, and kitchen rituals preserved a culture across generations.

You'll meet Noura, a modern Beirut chef who slips back into ancient Phoenicia during the sacred Hieros Gamos. Her journey through palace intrigue, mystical talismans, and forbidden love reveals how recipes become memory-and memory becomes survival.

And you'll cook through a full Levantine grimoire of ritual dishes, heritage meals, and Phoenician-inspired feasts, each with cultural notes and full-color photographs.

This is not just a cookbook.

Not just a novel.

Not just a memoir.

It's a cultural inheritance.

⭐ What You'll Get (Front-Loaded Benefits Buyers Can't Miss)

✔ 60+ authentic Lebanese & Levantine recipes

✔ Rich cultural notes & ancestral stories

✔ A sensory, mythic novel woven through the recipes

✔ Migration and diaspora memoir chapters

✔ Full-color photographs throughout

✔ Rare techniques & dishes not found in mainstream Middle Eastern books

✔ The meaning and practice of the ancient food philosophy of Rouh wa Nafas-the soul & breath of Lebanese cooking

⭐ This Edition Is Made for Real Kitchens

This Everyday Kitchen Edition contains every story, recipe, and photograph from the author's acclaimed Heirloom Edition-reimagined in a lighter, more affordable format for daily use.

Perfect for families, gift-giving, and anyone who wants to cook with memory rather than measurement.

⭐ A Book to Keep. A Book to Give.

Ideal for:

• Lebanese diaspora families
• Home cooks preserving heritage
• Fans of Madeline Miller, Diana Abu-Jaber, Bhanu Kapil, Laura Esquivel
• Cookbook collectors seeking authenticity
• Readers who crave stories rooted in place, history, and myth

If you've ever wished someone wrote down your grandmother's recipes-this is that book.

⭐ Proven Success

The Limited Heirloom Edition of Once Upon a Spice debuted as a #1 New Release in Arab & Middle Eastern Biographies and reached the Top 100 in multiple culinary and cultural categories.

This Everyday Kitchen Edition carries forward that legacy in a format meant to be held, used, stained, loved, and handed down.

⭐ For kitchens far from home. For recipes that refuse to be forgotten. For the diaspora that cooks with longing.