Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Anissa Helou is an award-winning cookbook author, whose books include Lebanese Cuisine, Mediterranean Street Food and Feast: Food of the Islamic World.

She talks about why she actively avoided cooking for much of her life, her dramatic and unlikely path to her current profession, and why she undertook the massive project of trying to capture the food of Muslim societies all around the world.

Learn more about This Being Human: agakhanmuseum.org/thisbeinghuman