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On my last trip to Damascus I went to my favourite Arabic Sweets shop, Alfaisal, to bring back few boxes of sweets to give away to friends and family in London. A couple of boxes in the shop brought back childhood memories and put a big smile on my f (read full article)
Last night I stumbled upon some of the most original cooking videos I have seen. They are made by 7aki7aki a Syrian student in France somewhere, may be Paris judging from her other videos. She is originally from Homs a small nice city north of Damasc (read full article)
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I get asked about halal meat a lot. Do I need to use halal meat for Middle Eastern cooking? Is there any difference between halal and non-halal meat? Can you tell the difference?Halal, for those who don't know it, is meat from animals slaughtered acc (read full article)
Allspice is an integral part of Syrian cuisine. You can hardly read a recipe of a Levantine dish that doesn't include allspice. It could be used on its own or more commonly side by side with black pepper. With me it was a complete different story...P (read full article)
Mortadella is not something you would normally associate with Middle Eastern Cuisine. Firstly it is pork. Secondly it is Italian. So how come it featured on my Syrian food blog?Well first things first, our mortadella is not pork although the pork var (read full article)
This year Ramadan started in the second half of August. Temperature in Damascus is in the high thirties and the day is really long, sunset is at 7:30. By the time the call to Maghreb prayer sounds fasting Muslims are desperate to get their hands on t (read full article)
Ramadan is a thirty days of peace and manic at the same time. The first day of fasting hits Damascus any the city goes into this form of transformation that I find fascinating to watch. To understand what I am talking about all you need to do is watc (read full article)
I have recently started a new job. It is a good hospital and a better position so I am happy, but the best thing about the new hospital is the Doctor's Mess. It is one of the best in the country. There is a serviced bar serving food and nibbles from (read full article)
Gastrogeek, a fellow food blogger, published a recipe of Bengali Moussaka. A small discussion followed her post confirmed a long standing theory I have that people outside Damascus, Arabs and Westerners alike, don't know the difference between Mutaba (read full article)
On Tuesday The Daily Mail brought us a world wide exclusive news story. A story that will make any right wing, xenophobic, supremist institute like The Mail and its readers so proud. Two brothers from Essex have introduced Dubai to the great concept (read full article)
Today I am simply quoting a brilliant post from Syria News Wire. I loved reading this post and I wanted you foodies out there to read it too. "Damascus has the best fruit juice in the world.The orange is sweet to perfection. The lemon and mint t (read full article)
Yesterday on Syria News Wire Sasa wrote a post about four articles published in The Times travel pages this weekend about Syria. I was really happy as it shows time is changing and Syria is coming back on to the front of tourists' distentions where (read full article)
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