SAHTEN - The SkatePal Cookbook

SkatePal is a non-profit organisation supporting communities throughout Palestine, promoting the social, health and wellbeing benefits of skateboarding to enhance the lives of local youth. 

'Sah-ten' صحتين is the Palestinian equivalent to ‘bon appetit’. Roughly translating to ‘two healths', it is often heard when food is placed on the table.

The book is a portrait of the skateboarding scene in Palestine, told through food. Featuring recipes from various figures involved in Palestine’s skateboarding community: from shop owners, local heroes and volunteers, to friends including Hiba Express and internationally-acclaimed chef Sami Tamimi.

Each dish is illustrated in collaboration with some of the young skaters in the West Bank, alongside Palestinian-Canadian skater Noor Abouseido.

In addition to recipes are interviews with local skaters, an features on the significance of the olive harvest, a yoga sequence to help ease any skate-related aches and pains, and a how-to guide for recycling an old skateboard into a chopping board – all peppered with photography collected over the years.

Designed and edited by Tom Bird.

• 184 pages
• Hardcover
• 1.3kg weight
• 2nd edition (1st edition released 2020)
• Self-published by SkatePal

Featuring recipe contributions from: Amr & Mhaned (Al Amad & Sons), Abu Ali Sawalma, Jess & Meg (What The Fattoush), Izzeldin Bukhari (Sacred Cuisine), Moath & Nada Qashoo (Mini Hiba), Abood Barhan, Sami Tamimi (Falastin), Aram & Sorida Sabbah, Yasmeen & Suha Foqha (Palestinian Youth Club), Tessa Fox, Diana Musa, Josh Sutton, Em Hamadneh, Malak Battatt, Tayseer Hamadneh