The Lebanese Kitchen

The Lebanese Kitchen is a 2012 cookbook of Lebanese cuisine by Salma Hage. It was published by Phaidon Press. It was reissued in 2019 as The Lebanese Cookbook.

The book also features recipes from Greg Malouf and Anissa Helou. The book has six different versions of the Lebanese national dish kibbeh and eight versions of hummus. It is more than 500 pages in length. The book is illustrated with photographs of rural Lebanon.

Hage immigrated to the United Kingdom from Lebanon aged 25. She was the eldest of 12 children. Her mother was 13 when she was born. She spent almost 30 years as a cleaner and cook at the Nelson Hospital in Wimbledon and various care homes in southwest London. Hage's son approached Phaidon Press with a mock-up of a book of Lebanese cuisine by her and invited publishing executives to dine at their home. They were immediately impressed, and the book was subsequently published.

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