It was a challenge for Ham El-Waylly to embrace home cooking at first. As an acclaimed fine-dining chef, there was a time when “if it wasn’t plated with tweezers, I didn’t want it,” he writes in his new cookbook, “Hello, Home Cooking.” But when the pandemic hit, he was forced to reconsider the way he prepared meals at home. He dropped the tweezers, streamlined his approach and found inspiration in his childhood memories, rediscovering his mother’s recipes and the comforting international dishes he grew up with from Qatar, Bolivia, Brazil and Egypt. The book, his first, is filled with his joyous, playful spin on these recipes, all doable for a regular home cook, yet leveled up with El-Waylly’s creativity and smart culinary techniques.
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