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Blasta Books #15: Jibrin

Nestled among the southern streets and river walls of Cork City is the award-winning Izz Café, run by beloved couple Izzeddeen Alkarajeh and Eman Aburabi. Serving top-quality Palestinian food, including the always-popular manaeesh, steaming fresh pittas, traditional homemade desserts and their own house-roasted coffee, Izz Café has become a much-loved destination in the heart of Cork’s food community.

In Jibrin (pronounced Jib-REEN), named after Eman’s family hometown in Palestine (Beit Jibrin), Izz and Eman share recipes that will take you on a culinary journey of their homeland, with recipes including sumac-dusted roast chicken on flatbread (musakhan), bite-size dumplings (Shish Barak), stuffed pickled aubergines (makdous) and knafeh, the syrupy, cheese-stuffed pastry cake.

COMING JULY 2025

  • ISBN: 9781738479580
  • Format: Hardcover, 72 pages
  • Dimensions: 21.7 x 1.2 x 15.4 cm
  • Publication date: 31 July 2025
€17.00
€17.00
This book will ship in July 2025

About the authors

Palestinian couple Izz and Eman Alkarajeh came to Ireland with their four children in 2016. They eventually settled in Cork and started trading at Mahon Point Farmers’ Market, where their entire stock sold out in just two hours on their first day. One year later, they opened their now-beloved Izz Café in Cork City in 2019. Representing Palestinian cuisine, culture and hospitality is at the core of what Izz and Eman do.

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