An epicurean exploration of Middle Eastern cuisine. One of the earth’s oldest regions of human civilization, the greater Middle East presents a wonderfully colorful and historic journey told through the art of food.Through centuries and millennia of ancient cultures, regions, people, religions, power shifts, trading and civilizations, the culinary ingredients of the Middle East and ancient Persia have blended together, transformed nations, unified cultures and created an epic diversity within the most important human necessity…food.As a crossroads between Europe and Africa, the Middle East has long been a hub of food and recipe exchange.