Once Upon a Spice

<h2><strong>What if your grandmother's recipes could time-travel-and take you with them?</strong></h2><p></p><p><em>Once Upon a Spice: The Everyday Kitchen Edition</em> is a <strong>Lebanese culinary epic</strong> that blends <strong>60+ heirloom recipes</strong> <strong>family memoir</strong> and a <strong>mythic time-travel novel</strong> into one unforgettable experience.</p><p>It's a book for anyone who has ever longed for a taste of home-or feared their heritage might disappear.</p><p></p><h2><strong>If you love Lebanese food magical realism ancestral storytelling or rich sensory writing this book was written for you.</strong>⭐ <strong>Why Readers Fall in Love With This Book</strong></h2><p></p><p><strong>Because it gives them what most cookbooks don't: context emotion and the stories behind the dishes.</strong></p><p>Inside you'll travel with the author through <strong>Lebanon Zambia and South Africa</strong> discovering how migrations matrilineal wisdom and kitchen rituals preserved a culture across generations.</p><p>You'll meet <strong>Noura</strong> a modern Beirut chef who slips back into ancient Phoenicia during the sacred <em>Hieros Gamos</em>. Her journey through palace intrigue mystical talismans and forbidden love reveals how recipes become memory-and memory becomes survival.</p><p>And you'll cook through <strong>a full Levantine grimoire</strong> of ritual dishes heritage meals and Phoenician-inspired feasts each with cultural notes and full-color photographs.</p><p>This is not just a cookbook.</p><p>Not just a novel.</p><p>Not just a memoir.</p><p><strong>It's a cultural inheritance.</strong></p><p></p><h2>⭐ <strong>What You'll Get (Front-Loaded Benefits Buyers Can't Miss)</strong></h2><p>✔ <strong>60+ authentic Lebanese & Levantine recipes</strong></p><p>✔ Rich cultural notes & ancestral stories</p><p>✔ A sensory mythic novel woven through the recipes</p><p>✔ Migration and diaspora memoir chapters</p><p>✔ Full-color photographs throughout</p><p>✔ Rare techniques & dishes not found in mainstream Middle Eastern books</p><p>✔ The meaning and practice of the ancient food philosophy of <strong>Rouh wa Nafas</strong>-the soul & breath of Lebanese cooking</p><p></p><h2>⭐ <strong>This Edition Is Made for Real Kitchens</strong></h2><p>This Everyday Kitchen Edition contains <strong>every story recipe and photograph</strong> from the author's acclaimed Heirloom Edition-reimagined in a <strong>lighter more affordable format</strong> for daily use.</p><p>Perfect for families gift-giving and anyone who wants to cook with memory rather than measurement.</p><p></p><h2>⭐ <strong>A Book to Keep. A Book to Give.</strong></h2><p>Ideal for:</p><ul><li> Lebanese diaspora families</li><li>Home cooks preserving heritage</li><li>Fans of Madeline Miller Diana Abu-Jaber Bhanu Kapil Laura Esquivel</li><li>Cookbook collectors seeking authenticity</li></ul><p>���� Readers who crave stories rooted in place history and myth</p><p><strong>If you've ever wished someone wrote down your grandmother's recipes-this is that book.</strong></p><p></p><h2>⭐ <strong>Proven Success</strong></h2><p><strong>The Limited Heirloom Edition of <em>Once Upon a Spice</em> debuted as a #1 New Release in Arab & Middle Eastern Biographies and reached the Top 100 in multiple culinary and cultural categories.</strong></p><p>This Everyday Kitchen Edition carries forward that legacy in a format meant to be held used stained loved and handed down.</p><p></p><h2>⭐ <strong>For kitchens far from home. For recipes that refuse to be forgotten. For the diaspora that cooks with longing.</strong></h2>