Um Ramadan is a Palestinian refugee from Yafa, and married into a family of fishermen from the same city. She knows all the traditional Gazan and Yafawi ways of preparing seafood (prior to 1948, the Yafa was the closest major city to Gaza and travel and trade was fluid and continuous between the two; the [...]
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The Gaza seaport, with Um Ramadan
Posted in Protagonists, Recipes on August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Um Ibrahim
Posted in Food History, Protagonists on August 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday we went to Deir el Balah to talk to Um Ibrahim, who spoke lovingly of the pumpkins back in her village. At 86 she is an encyclopedia of Palestinian food history.
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The Gaza Kitchen is a project by Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt.
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