In an insightful conversation with Tess from Slingshot books, she shares with us how Mona Zahed’s cookbook Tabkha came to life; written on her phone while displaced in a tent amidst the genocide in Gaza and reaching across the world to the tiny publishing house through the mutual aid group Coffees for Gaza where Tess did not think twice about taking on the project as she put it: “It’s a no brainer. It took me less than a second to say yes to this project …If a woman in a displacement tent in Gaza in the midst of the genocide wants a book made, you make her book for her, end of.”
“If a woman in a displacement tent in Gaza in the midst of the genocide wants a book made, you make her book for her, end of.”
She shares that Mona wanted to fundraise for her family and save her recipes by documenting them in Tabkha: “Literally she felt that she was saving her recipes, extracting them from the rubble.”
“Literally she felt that she was saving her recipes, extracting them from the rubble.”
Tess highlights the significance of including two Palestinian illustrators in the second edition of Tabkha who gladly shared their creative talents for Tabkha to now feature illustrations from 22 artists around the world.
Listen to the full conversation with Tess and pre-order your copy of Tabkha.
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