Cooking for an Englishman: A Novel with Recipes

Every meal tells a story. Leila's story begins as a child in the Middle East as she watches her just-out-of-jail father toiling in an orange grove.
Cooking for an Englishman follows Leila's journey across continents from childhood into adulthood. The story is told with humour and pathos - a potent combination blending the memory of food with the emotions of a girl growing up in an alien culture.
Each chapter is triggered by an incident, an adventure, a memory linked with food and is accompanied by an actual recipe.
“He gave out the stories like pieces of special cake, making the children hungry for them with the promise: ‘What I am telling you now you will never find in a book. What I am telling you, I swear by God, is true. It happened to me.’
Alex Adon is a prize-winning stage, film and television writer. She is an avid cook. This is her first published novel.. This is her first published novel.
Caroline Krantz who devised the recipes is a lifelong lover of food and cooking. Inspired by Middle Eastern and Eastern European roots and by her extensive travels, she regularly creates feasts for her family and friends. When not perfecting recipes or browsing food markets she writes English language teaching books used by students around the world.