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Baba ganoush

Preparation time: 10 minutes + cooling time

Cooking time: 30–45 minutes

Preheat the oven to 400°F/200°C/Gas Mark 6. Put the eggplants (aubergines) onto a baking sheet, pierce them all over with a fork, then roast in the oven for 30–45 minutes, until soft. Once cool enough to handle, peel the skin off and discard. Set the flesh aside to cool completely.

Put the garlic into a mortar with a little salt and crush with a pestle, then add the tahini and lemon juice and mix well.

When the eggplant flesh is cool, chop it finely, transfer to a bowl, and add the garlic-tahini mixture. Season well and thoroughly combine all the ingredients. Place on a serving plate, then drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle on the pomegranate seeds.

Creamy, garlicky, and addictive, it is no wonder that baba ganoush is famous around the globe. For the perfect accompaniment, carefully toast some Pita Bread directly over a low gas flame of your stove and use to dip them in.

150 delicious recipes

This book is in line with the current Western trends of consciously reducing meat, and the ancient Middle Eastern culture of largely vegetarian, mezze style dining.

Drawing inspiration from ancient and prized Phoenician ingredients

From grassy olive oil to fresh figs and rich dates, this book offers an array of delicious breakfasts and drinks, mezze and salads, vegetables and pulses, grains and desserts.

Easy-to-cook dishes

"Recipes that are simple but zing with enticing, exotic flavours... Perfect light dishes for summer dining... Plenty to tempt even the most entrenched meat-eater." —The Lady

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Mandrill

A scarlet nose with prominent, bony blue flanges on either side are the unmistakable characteristics of the male mandrill. The female's facial color is much more subdued. She is about a third of the size of the male, which, at 23 1/2 inches (80 cm) high to the shoulder, is the largest of all the monkeys.

Polar Regions

The Arctic and Antarctic are the coldest places on earth. The Arctic is a partly frozen ocean, hemmed in by large expanses of windswept tundra; the Antarctic is an ice-covered continent, surrounded by the world's stormiest seas. In the Arctic, many animals live on land; in the Antarctic, animal life is based almost entirely in the ocean.

Bats

Bats are the only mammals that possess true, flapping wings and the ability to fly (as opposed to colugos, for example, which glide). Bats' wing membrane (the patagium), an extension of the skin of the back and belly, provides a high degree of maneuverability in flight.

Black Caiman

Hunted for its skin, the black caiman has become extinct in many parts of its range, and its numbers are thought to have been reduced by 99 percent in the past 100 years. It floats on the surface by day but may come ashore to feed at night.

Striking Appearance

Some tropical jumping spiders are very brightly colored, with iridescent hairs arranged in patches and spots. In some, the whole of the upper surface of the abdomen may be bright red or orange.

Echinoderms

This group of marine invertebrates includes starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. Their bodies are typically spiny and usually divided into 5 equal parts arranged symmetrically around a central point.