Berlin, Germany
Six Years of Kibbeh, and the Problem Is the Water
A cook in Berlin has been reverse-engineering her grandmother's kibbeh since 2015. She has eliminated the meat, the burghul, the hands and the pan.
28 January 2021
Food
The Syrian table — what is cooked, by whom, and what it stands in for.
Damascus, Syria
The Sweet Shop Runs on Two Clocks
One is the shop's. The other belongs to everyone who buys from it, and it has only four hands: a wedding, a funeral, a return and a feast.
21 January 2021
Latakia, Syria
What the Boats Bring In, the Kitchen Decides
On the coast the menu is not written the night before. It is written at six, on the quay, by whatever came up.
14 January 2021