Ramadan on Rahma Road: A Recipe Storybook

PreS-Gr 3–It’s the holy month of Ramadan, and the families on Rahma Road are having their annual community iftar meal. Each family, whether fasting or not, is lovingly preparing a dish to share, and the delicious offerings are as diverse as the families themselves. Designed as both a story and a cookbook, each spread includes a peek into a family’s kitchen alongside a special recipe. Readers are introduced to recipes from Pakistan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Palestine, and Mexico, to name a few, while also reading about the relationships that make each dish significant. The collaboration among Gutta’s story, Osman’s recipes, and Sohrabi’s art flows seamlessly as the text, recipes, and illustrations work together to create vibrant pages full of nuance and culturally meaningful details. Gutta and Osman uplift the diversity of the Muslim global community by including names for loved ones in languages like Hausa, Turkish, and Uyghur and recipes from countries that span the continents. Sohrabi’s illustrations, with patterns and compositions reminiscent of Persian art, evoke the potential for food to foster connection and care for one another. The back matter includes information about Ramadan along with many more recipes to try.