eat. he says how can you be eating and you re letting everybody sit? wow. for me, being from gaza, being a child of diaspora, i always thought food was an interesting way to be able to tell the palestinian story. being able to discover this lost history, this palestinian past. plus, the food is really dang good. right. that it is. i think it was also important to be able to provide palestinians an image of
so there is actually no answer to it. but the question of food appropriation or who owns the food is massive here. you can go on arguing about it forever. the old city is divided into four quarters. there is muslim quarter. there is a jewish quarter. there is a christian quarter. and there s an armenian quarter. each one functions independently, but people that live in the certain area are all from that religion. right. so here you see these israeli flags over this house. so basically jews have bought this house, although it s in the muslim quarter. that s very controversial because it breaks the separation that people would normally expect in this city. now we re walking in the steps of jesus christ, right? as i so often do.
very controversial because for the jews, for the israelis, the city has been unified. but obviously for the palestinian, they re under occupation as far as they re concerned. we just have to go for a falafel because it s so much part of the culture here. again, contentious because jews or israelis make falafel their own and everybody in the world thinks falafel is an israeli food. but in actual fact it s been done for generations here. and here, you get falafel that s just been fried. you don t get it any other way. when i go to place like that and i see there s a few left in the bowl from the previous customer, i don t take them. i want him to fry them especially for me. that makes all the difference in the world. a whole different animal, isn t it? so is there a historically provable answer to who invented it? who made it first. the one thing that s very clear in this part of the world, palestine, lebanon, syria, it s been cooked for many, many, many generations. on the other han
food is massive here. you can go on arguing about it forever. the old city is divided into four quarters. there is muslim quarter. there is a jewish quarter. there is a christian quarter. and there s an armenian quarter. each one functions independently, but people that live in the certain area are all from that religion. right. so here you see these israeli flags over this house. so basically jews have bought this house, although it s in the muslim quarter. that s very controversial because it breaks the separation that people would normally expect in this city. now we re walking in the steps of jesus christ, right? as i so often do. so this is via dolorosa, which is the last trip jesus did before he was crucified. people feel very emotional. they come here and they feel
and you re letting everybody sit? wow. for me, being from gaza, being a child of diaspora, i always thought food was an interesting way to be able to tell the palestinian story. being able to discover this lost history, this palestinian past. plus, the food is really dang good. right. that it is. i think it was also important to be able to provide palestinians an image of themselves that they recognize, a very humane image, because all they re seeing in the media, whether here or there, whether on arabic channels or abroad, you know, is this kind of very caricatured images of gunmen and wailing women and the grim cinderblock landscape. you re not entering into the private homes. what does a kitchen look like, or what does a family you see