MaydanRose Previte introduces readers to the eclectic cultures of the region spanning North Africa, the Caucuses, and the Middle East through food, offering a nuanced, informed, and yet entirely warm and personal way in. Before opening her beloved Washington, DC, restaurants Maydn and Compass Rose, Previte travelled old spice trade routes to learn from home cooks. It became apparent how adjacent cooking traditions informed and folded back on one another,