Best-selling and award winning author Jessie Kirkness Parker won international acclaim for A Taste of Arabia when, in 2009, it was honoured as the Best Arab Cuisine Cookbook in the World  by the Gourmand World Cook Book Awards in Paris.  Today, she is considered one of the leading authorities on Arabian cuisines and consults in food styling and art direction to local and multinational companies for film and TV as well as developing recipes and cook books for Europian, Indian and ‘Al Khaleeji' markets.