Reem Kassis is a Palestinian writer. Her debut cookbook, “The Palestinian Table,” was nominated for a James Beard award, short-listed for the Andre Simon Award and the Edward Stanford Award, and won The Guild of Food Writers First Book Award. Her second cookbook, "The Arabesque Table", is due out in April 2021. Born and raised in Jerusalem, she holds two undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Wharton and an MSc in social psychology from The London School of Economics. A former McKinsey consultant, today Kassis uses the power of food and storytelling to share the Palestinian narrative with the world. She is currently working on her second cookbook about the evolving and cross-cultural food of the Middle East. (Photo Credit: Courtney Apple)