TORONTO: Written amid hopes for a Middle East peace process, “Classic Palestinian Cookery” was first released in 2001. “We really thought that peace was becoming a reality” and the book was “an expression of all this hope,” author Christiane Dabdoub Nasser told Arab News. More than two decades later, as the book — now titled “Classic Palestinian Cuisine” — releases its 25th-anniversary edition this month, Dabdoub said that hope has faded, even as the book’s importance remains. For her, food is a
