Menú de Gaza brings together the Hammad family’s record of cooking and daily life in Gaza, developed with journalist Mikel Ayestaran and published by Revista 5W. Dalia Hammad photographed the dishes for the original online project. Images of food became a way to describe conditions in which obtaining ingredients, water and fuel was itself part of survival. The subject is a family’s continuing daily activity under siege, seen through what it could prepare and share.

The publisher frames the project as a response to hunger being used as a weapon of war. Photographs of dishes carry that argument through the intimate scale of a meal. Alongside recipes and stories, they invite the reader to consider the circumstances behind an apparently ordinary image: what was available, what effort was required, and what cooking can preserve of family life. The photographic record gives these questions a repeated, concrete form rather than leaving hunger as an abstract condition.

The book’s Spanish-English presentation extends a project that first circulated on Instagram into a small physical volume. At 118 × 160 mm, its scale recalls a personal notebook or recipe book. The publisher specifies a semi-rigid linen-covered binding, thin Bible paper and ribbon markers in the colours of the Palestinian flag. More than 2,500 people supported its publication through crowdfunding. The online project received the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Prize in 2025; the book subsequently received a special mention in the photo-text category at the 2026 Rencontres d’Arles book awards.

For collectors interested in documentary practice, the book offers a case in which photographs, recipes and first-person experience work together. Its importance lies in making a domestic record available for sustained reading, beyond the changing flow of a social platform. The small format reinforces the closeness of its subject while the images connect a family’s table to the wider conditions shaping its life.