
Date Ice Cream (BUZA ‘ALA-TAMR)
Before sugar became commonly available, dates were an important sweetener in Arabia, and even though this date ice cream must be a recent addition to

Before sugar became commonly available, dates were an important sweetener in Arabia, and even though this date ice cream must be a recent addition to

Arabic, Turkish, and Iranian ice creams have a completely different texture from that of Italian gelato or other Western ice creams. In many cases, there

These Iraqi date cookies are an absolute must for Eid, both Eid il-Futr, which immediately follows Ramadan, and Eid al-Adha, the feast of the sacrifice,

These luscious pastries come from Kairouan in Tunisia. They are usually shaped with a special stamp that both flattens the dough and etches a pattern

The ultimate combination of fried eggs, sausages na’aniq and hash browns. The familiar can be comforting but so is waking up your taste buds to

When home cooks plan to make m’hanncha at home, they will rarely make the warqa, the Moroccan equivalent of phyllo dough. Instead they will buy

There is an ongoing debate about where kunafah, a sweet cheese “pie” usually eaten for breakfast, originated. Some claim Turkey as its country of origin,

Khoshaf gets its name from Persian—khosh-ab (good water)—suggesting that it probably originated in Persia, although you can find it with slight variations throughout the Levant.

Ma’muniyeh is a typical breakfast from Aleppo in Syria, a kind of sweet Syrian porridge, made with semolina and served with a stringy cheese called


