The Seattle Sister Cities Association (SSCA) is pleased to announce the publication of The International Table, a new cookbook highlighting recipes from across the globe. It collects over 100 dishes suitable for the home chef, including hallmark dishes from each of Seattle’s twenty sister cities.
A broad range of dishes including everyday foods — like shakshuka (Be’er Sheva, Israel), kalgusku (knife-cut noodle soup; Daejeon, Republic of Korea), or bigos (hunter’s stew; Gdynia, Poland) — to those for special occasions — like pavlova (Christchurch, New Zealand), oysters with trout roe (Galway, Ireland), or poulet DG (chicken for the Director General; Limbe, Cameroon) — can be found within The International Table. All recipes are accompanied by tantalizing photography and a brief history of the city of origin. Easy-to-follow recipes and substitutions for harder-to-find ingredients make this cookbook accessible to novice and experienced chefs alike.
Some flavors will be familiar to American home chefs, while others will fling open the doors to international culinary adventure. Travel to the beautiful ports of Cameroon, the chilly tundra of Iceland, and the bustling streets of China, the tantalizing smells and tastes leading the way. There is not a more delicious way to learn more about the diverse population of Seattle and its many connected global communities.
Includes recipes from: Be’er Sheva, Israel; Bergen, Norway; Cebu, Philippines; Chongqing, China; Christchurch, New Zealand; Daejeon, Republic of Korea, Galway, Ireland; Gdynia, Poland; Hải Phòng, Vietnam; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Kobe, Japan; Limbe, Cameroon; Mombasa, Kenya; Nantes, France; Pécs, Hungary; Perugia, Italy; Reykjavík, Iceland; Sihanoukville, Cambodia; Surabaya, Indonesia; and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
In addition to the many recipes contributed by the dedicated amateur chefs of Seattle’s sister cities, many professional chefs contributed to the project, including Jp McMahon, author of The Irish Cookbook (Phaildon Press, 2020), Marialucia Luongo, author of Cucinaria: Lettere dalla cucina (Cucinaria: Letters from the Kitchen; 2018), Letizia Mattiacci, author of A Kitchen With A View (RDJ, 2016) and Festa Italiana (Madonna del Piatto, 2020), and Narin Seng Jameson, author Cooking the Cambodian Way: The Intertwined Story of Cooking and Culture in Cambodia (JSRC Printing House, 2016).
These dishes sing of home and hearth, family and history. Be sure to share them with your friends — established and new, local and distant.
All proceeds benefit the Seattle Sister City Associations and its affiliated organizations.