Nigel Slater’s Middle Eastern recipes

Whether it’s braised lamb with turmeric or filo pastry with dried apricots, these delicious dishes sing with spiceWe breakfasted each morning on soft sheets of warm bread, quince jam and spoonfuls of thick, sour cream. We cut wedges of chilled watermelon, squeezed sweet-sour oranges and cracked fat walnuts. There were bowls of mint and basil to pick at and luminous, treacle-textured molasses of pomegranate, mulberry and date, to trickle over jagged crumbs of crumbly white cheese. Some of t