Kibbe, generally made from a paste of minced spiced meat and softened bulgar wheat, is a traditional family dish in Syria and Lebanon. I didn’t grow up knowing about it, but enjoyed it for the many years I knew some expert cooks for whom it was “home food.” It’s labor intensive and, despite its simple ingredients, hard to make correctly,
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I didn’t think it ever snowed in Damascus. These photographs were taken in Damascus 12-13 December 2010….. ….by Labib Sanadiki of Dawn Travel, who has kindly allowed me to post them here. Labib was our guide in Syria this past May. Labib did a fantastic job of keeping track of us and our stuff, shepherding us through the mazelike streets
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Horses and donkeys still do hard work in Syria and Turkey: plowing rocky fields, pulling carts, and carrying oversized burdens, as they have done all over the world for thousands of years. The horses in the first three pictures below, from Syria, were riding horses, as, I think, were those photographed in Cappadocia. The plow horses and the cart horses were
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