Chicken dish is spiced perfectly

A one-pot dish you can make ahead of time and serve with nothing more than a green salad comes with Arab flavours in this easy recipe from The Arabesque Table (Phaidon/Canadian Manda Group, $49.95). Jerusalem-born author Reem Kassis has followed up The Palestinian Table, her 2017 book about her family cooking, with a collection of 130 recipes that show, as she writes, the “evolving and cross-cultural Arab table” of the Middle East. Dishes from 22 countries represent the Arab world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea, writes the Philadelphia-based scholar in her good-looking, well-written book illustrated by photographer Dan Perez. This book is a winner.