I heard about this book when the author was interviewed on NPR. It's really a food autobiography, or an autobiography with food woven into the author's life story. Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and poignant, the food descriptions are marvelous. The author's account of her father insisting on providing home-cooked Jordanian feasts for her to eat at school instead of the god-awful school lunches everyone else consumed is hysterical.