My husband recently took a group of people on a trip to Syria. One of the stops was breakfast at my parents’  home. Although it was nothing out of the ordinary for her, my mom chuckled during a phone call to me shortly after they left.  “They were taking pictures of the breakfast laid out [...]

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I once read a children’s story about “stone soup.”  It told of a man who had no money but who was very hungry.  As he begged, unsuccessfully, for morsels of food from people in his village, he came upon an idea to fill his stomach. He found an old soup pot, filled it with water, [...]

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One of my best childhood memories, is when we visit my grand parents in the village.  We get up in the  early morning hours so we can watch my grandmother mixing the dough and bake the  bread in thetannour.  She would snatch the bread out the wall of the tannour, paste it with Zaatar oil mixture, fold [...]

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