Jerusalem in London

Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi’s Diasporic World

Bibliographic Data

ID13049886
AuthorsHarry Eli Kashdan (0000-0002-9884-5671, The Ohio State University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume6
Issue2
PagesHarry-Kashdan
Publication date2019-08-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMashriq & Mahjar Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2169-4435 • E-ISSN: 2169-4435
PublisherKhayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.24847/66i2019.228
OpenAlexW2969235660
LanguageEN
Citations received2

Prompted by the publishing phenomenon of Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi’s Jerusalem cookbook, this paper considers the discourse(s) of place elaborated by an emergent network of Middle Eastern chefs-in-diaspora. Focusing on Ottolenghi and Tamimi’s Jerusalem and Ottolenghi cookbooks, I argue that cookbooks can be productively analyzed as literary objects with an actor-network methodology. The particular story presented by Ottolenghi and Tamimi’s work is one in which distinctions are repeatedly raised and then dismissed in order to find common ground between Israel and Palestine. Ottolenghi may be an Israeli Jew and Tamimi a Palestinian Muslim, but both men are London expatriates and restaurateurs. The literary dimensions of their cookbooks attempt to harmonize personal narratives with the commercial forces at play in cookbook publishing: peace sells better than conflict, and diasporic nostalgia never goes out of style

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Diaspora · Epistemology · Literature · Media studies · Middle East · Narrative · Order (exchange · Palestine · Phenomenon · Publishing · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy

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