Abstract:
In 2012, Jerusalem: A Cookbook, co-authored by the Israeli chef and food writer Yotam Ottolenghi and the Palestinian chef Sami Tamimi, was released to widespread acclaim. It has often been celebrated by mainstream audiences as an example of Israeli-Palestinian partnership and coexistence. This review essay challenges the cookbook’s erasure of settler-colonial violence and its portrayal of diversity as characteristics of broader projects of political normalization and culinary appropriation that steadily serve to erase Palestine.