topic: cuisine

Where is Um Hana tonight?
July 28, 2014
Where is Um Hana tonight? The tanks rolled into Beit Lahiya weeks ago, the air exploding around them. At first I pictured her and her four...
retrospectives
Kitchen Anthropology in Gaza
June 1, 2013
A couple of years ago, I interviewed Fatma El-Mehdi , an activist for the Western Sahara independence movement in its long struggle to...
retrospectives
Keeping House
June 1, 2013
Shortly after it was published, Clara Sereni’s pioneering autobiography in recipes Keeping House (La Casalinghitudine) became a cult for...
retrospectives
Gastropolitics in the Conflict Kitchen
June 1, 2013
Ben Affleck’s film Argo , the story of an intrepid Hollywood film crew that rescues diplomats from bloodthirsty Iranian hordes, was awarded...