For two decades, Sami Tamimi’s name appeared second on the cover: Ottolenghi, Jerusalem, Falastin. Boustany — “my garden” in Arabic — is the first book written entirely in his own voice. Published June 2025, it draws on his Palestinian childhood in Jerusalem and years spent cooking in London and Umbria, building more than 100 plant-based recipes around the vegetables he grows and sources himself. This is not a health book. It is a book about memory and place, where a specific way of charring aubergine or braising a courgette carries the weight of inheritance. The Guardian, Bon Appétit, and the New York Times named it among 2025’s best cookbooks. Tamimi has been cooking this way since before it had a name, and this is the book he couldn’t write until the collaborations were done and he was left with just his own garden and his own story.
£30 — penguin.co.uk