#middle east food

[hookahhabibicafe]

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[ryandjaxon]

In 2013, Anthony Bourdain ventured into Jerusalem, West Bank, & Gaza, acknowledging the controversy he’d stir. Bourdain set out to uncover the best falafel & hummus but ended up exploring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, amplifying the voices often unheard. 🌍🥙

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Atayef (Middle Eastern Pancakes) 

[mysharona1987]

But when he applied to a McDonald’s manager he just wanted to serve burgers in a healthy way and make a decent salary.

Not be the one to literally prevent WW3.

[hebrewbyinbal]

Sandra this one is for you, thanks for asking if I still had it. For the others who have not tried hummus, there is no excuse now! 🤗

Learning Hebrew is a bit like making hummus!

Chickpeas (hummus in Hebrew!) are the base, like the core vocabulary you start with. Tahini? That’s your grammar – the richness that binds it all together. A squeeze of lemon for the fun expressions and a dash of garlic to add that Israeli zest!

Each ingredient makes it tastier, just like every new word and phrase makes your Hebrew more flavorful.

Mix it all together, and you’re on your way to delicious, fluent Hebrew! 🧄🍋✍️

[phoenixyfriend]

Okay, following up on that news I saw earlier. I first was alerted to it by the BBC Global News Podcast and Al Jazeera News Updates. For easier reference and more detail, however, I will be referring to this article from AP News for details, which itself references this article that cites the Washington Post.

Things of note:

This seems to have been caused by the recent incident where over 115 Palestinians were killed, and over 750 injured, by the IDF during a reported stampede by starving civilians trying to get to aid trucks.

The air drops will begin "in the coming days," and will start with MREs (military rations).

There will be multiple rounds, according to John Kirby.

The process will be done in conjunction with Jordan, which shares the longest of Israel's borders, the Eastern. (That part isn't in the article but I don't know how many people actually know where Jordan is.)

The US admits that it doesn't... know what it's doing? And is basically going to learn on the job. Not super promising but better than nothing. Most of the concern seems to be that the extreme crowding will increase the risk of injury; I assume dropping large pallets of supplies is easier when there's a lot of empty space, and smaller, less dangerous packages mean dropping less at a time since more space is needed in the planes for the parachutes.

Planes airdropping supplies is in itself MUCH LESS efficient than truck deliveries for this reason.

They're also hoping to set up a "maritime corridor" but there's no real word on how that's going to be achieved other than the ceasefire talks.

The U.S. has been pushing Israel to speed the flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza and to open a third crossing into the territory, but Friday’s violence showed the challenges no matter the circumstances. “The loss of life is heartbreaking,” Biden said Friday as he announced his decision to order airdrops. “People are so desperate.”

Additionally, the second article has more details on the concerns that kept airdrops from being implemented earlier:

“Aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough,” Biden said. “Now, it’s nowhere nearly enough. Innocent lives are on the line and children’s lives are on the line. We won’t stand by until we get more aid in there. We should be getting hundreds of trucks in, not just several.” The White House, State Department and Pentagon had been weighing the merits of U.S. military airdrops of assistance for several months, but had held off due to concerns that the method is inefficient, has no way of ensuring the aid gets to civilians in need and cannot make up for overland aid deliveries. [...] “It’s not the kind of thing you want to do in a heartbeat. you want to think it through carefully,” Kirby said. He added, “There’s few military operations that are more complicated than humanitarian assistance airdrops”

The second article also discusses how domestic conflicts, namely Speaker Johnson's refusal to address foreign crises until "taking care of America's needs" (paraphrase), have been delaying much of what could have been done before now.

[on-break-read-my-last-post]

Israeli assault has caused ‘apocalyptic’ situation in northern Gaza, UN warns

Key officials say the entire population of northern Gaza ‘at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence’

Consider donating to gofundmes, charities, and NGOs if you can afford to. Please consider doing so. It's not hard to find reputable gofundmes, charities, and NGOs. They offer lifelines to people. This is a critical situation.

[peacefuldwellings]

Homemade Naan

[lemedstudent2021]

baba made bamia today :D

one of my favourite dishes and the food of all time. bamia btw is okra stew made with red tomato sauce and meat (lamb). also i was starving so it tasted more glorious lol.

anyway i randomly remembered stumbling across staggering quantities of bamia hate a few years back?? i was shook to say the least. behold a poll:

for statistical accuracy; if u love okra in general but as a dish other than the aformentioned stew pls choose the third option thank u :)

also! if this dish is also one in your cuisine please share! my 2 minute google research gave me answers only from MENA but afaik cultures all over the globe more often than not share dishes, albeit more local.

hopped onto reddit (as one does) and browsed a few threads. returned with a few gems lol:

the arabic reads: id rather eat shit with oil than eat bamia. ouch lol

mlochia is another somewhat controversial dish lol. aka jews mallow, and ewedu. its essentially green leaf soup. uncle iroh would love it

this one was too fucking funny not to include. the makhratta btw is a mezzaluna knife. in jordan its typically prepared as soup, but in my family we also eat it the lebanese way; leaf stew no blending.

[almostpoetic0-0]

The concept of Damian growing up with a Muslim shower(bidet) as he grew up in a Arabic country and just talia packing him an empty bottle(if yanno , yanno) and telling him to use this to go to the bathroom in his European tour or however he really to the Manor, with a separate Muslim shower attachment (for when he get to the manor for installment) as well and like poor bby dami confused and asks his mother if it is a training exercise and Talia just freaking longs sighs and says that the west doesn't have Muslim showers like us and they u paper to clean there butt and

DAMI JUST HORRIFEID LIKE NO WATER ???

AND LIKE HES WILLING TO BEG UMMI NOT TO SEND HIM. And then he's like but my FATHER(baba) would not be stupid enough right he must be rich enough to use water to "do the stuff right " and once again he is disappointed

And like in the background Jason had his dip already sneaks into the league to like steal a Muslim shower for himself (he grew up on the street he has to feel clean or ptsd yanno) and Ra's is so proud that ATLEST SOMEONE from the west cherises cleanliness and doesn't even care abt hurting Jason (he's like a scientist showing of his discovery) like HERE U WANT ONE TAKE IT,I HAVE A GOLD PLATED ONE TO TAKE THAT TO. Like just Muslim shower appreciation bro and Eastern culture to but mostly Muslim shower

Also the food don't get me started on that bby used to having whole a** chilies but like he's comes to USA and EVERYTHING IS SO BLAND W H Y. He has to call his mother and ask her with increasing desperation if he can come back and to at least send him a cook he is a prince after all.

Everybody at the Manor is confused abt him not eating food and putting hot sauce on everything because that's what he has been led to THE HORROR. Alfreds British and even after all that colonization BY TRADING FREAKING SPICE through the subcontinent their food is still pretty bland and Dami is so salty abt this to Alfred

Dami: Ummi these people don't even know what seasoning is, Ummi. Plz is this punishment for the time my tiger ate your dress mother. Father(baba) doesn't even know how to install a Muslim shower Ummi

And talia amused on the inside and telling to preservere and think of it as training

And just yeah a biracial person guide to THE WEST

I would like LOVEEEE to read a comic written by a Eastern writer about Damian having to adapt to the west and that being harder then any training cus he like are these people senile or poor to wipe ther butt with paper and to think that mandi (pretty sure there might be veggie options in this to) is just orange friend rice to them like where is the FLAVOUR 🤌

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Maamoul (Butter Cookies)

[chefchatter]

Decadent Cupcake Batter Cheesecake

Ingredients:

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1/4 cup sour cream

1/4 cup cupcake mix

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 egg

1/4 cup rainbow sprinkles

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325°F (160°C) and line a muffin tin with cupcake liners.

In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth.

Add sugar, sour cream, cupcake mix, and vanilla extract. Mix until well combined.

Beat in the egg until fully incorporated.

Fold in the rainbow sprinkles.

Pour the batter into the prepared cupcake liners, filling each about 3/4 full.

Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until the edges are set and the centers are slightly jiggly.

Remove from the oven and let cool completely before serving.

Prep Time: 15 minutes | Cooking Time: 20-25 minutes | Total Time: 35-40 minutes

Kcal: 210 kcal | Servings: 12 cupcakes

#cupcakebatter #cheesecakecupcakes #cupcakecheesecake #dessertlover #sweettooth #cheesecakelover #cupcakelove #dessertgram #homemadedessert #bakingfun #cupcakeideas #cheesecakelove #desserttime #sweettreats #deliciousdesserts

[whats-in-a-sentence]

In the postwar era, Anglo-American eugenic attention extended to the global population explosion – particularly in what was then called the underdeveloped world. No doubt for some reform eugenicists the rapidly multiplying populations of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America represented some sort of immense "social problem group". Yet it required no race prejudice to find a good deal that was dysgenic in the proliferation of people in environments that offered inadequate food, housing, education, and medical care.²⁴

24. Julian S. Huxley, "Eugenics in Evolutionary Perspective" [Galton lecture, 1962], in Julian S. Huxley, Essays of a Humanist (Harper & Row, 1964), pp. 266-67. Osborn argued that whether the social qualities of children from lower-income homes were in origin genetic, environmental, or some combination of the two, their "relative inadequacy" tended to be handed on to the next generation. Frederick Osborn, "Qualitative Aspects of Population Control: Eugenics and Euthenics", Law and Contemporary Problems, Summer 1960, p. 416, copy in American Eugenics Society Papers, box 15.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[hebrewbyinbal]

Love this guy! Great recipe 🥙 and -

Because I see Hebrew lessons everywhere I go -

Hummus, or in Israeli Hebrew pronunciation /'khoo-moos/, is what we call both the spread and chickpeas.

When it comes to chickpeas, we usually add the word /gar-gee-'rey/ which means 'grains of' or a small particle (as in, grain of salt) before the word /'khoo-moos/.

Enjoy!

[julieterbang]

nurcanskitchen_

[memenewsdotcom]

Israel airstrike kills aid workers