Hello, Home Cooking

Use everyday ingredients to create memorable meals with 90 flavorful, unique, and approachable recipes from around the worldby one half of the beloved team behindNYT Cookings Mystery Menu.

InHello, Home Cooking, quirky, beloved, fun-lovingNYT Cookingvideo star Ham El-Waylly combines his unique personal heritagerepresenting the cuisines of Qatar, Bolivia, Brazil, and Egyptwith his fifteen years as a professional chef to bring delicious, global recipes to home cooks.Ham teaches readers how flavorsworkso that you can swap in local or seasonal ingredients to any recipe.

Deeply rooted ineveryonesnostalgia, Ham’s recipes center culture and community with beloved dishes from across different nations that carry a cant-quite-put-my-finger-on-it hominess, regardless of the origin. He teaches cooks of all experience levels about the base flavors of cuisines around the world, freeing them to mix, match, and alter classic dishes into something delicious and new. From the Macarona Bechamel that parallels American Mac n Cheese and Basbousa (a sweet, semolina cake) that would rival any Blondie, to Egyptian taamaya (like falafel but made with fava beans instead of chickpeas) and beyond,Hello, Home Cookingshows you how to highlight your own heritage in familiar recipes by swapping in certain ingredients for othersfocusing on affordability and availability. Most people are familiar with the mezze staple muhammara, a dip made of ground walnuts and charred red peppers. Hams go-to version isn’t red; It’s green from roasted hatch chilies and pistachios. The Brazilian icebox cake, pave, is usually made with pricey, impossible-to-find fresh passionfruittry it with seasonal strawberries instead for a summery treat.

With Hams invaluable guidance, you can make any comfort meal an adventure, and any adventurous dish feel like youve eaten and loved it a hundred times.