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Palestinian cooking dishes: Is Israel stealing a tasting culture?

For This Palestinian Cook, The Kitchen Is A 'Powerful Place' Not A 'Life Sentence' Amy Salit and Thea Chaloner produced and edited the audio of this interview. Bridget Bentz and Molly Seavy-Nesper adapted it for the Web. TERRY GROSS April 7, 20211:48 PM ETHeard on Fresh Air Growing up in East Jerusalem, Palestinian cookbook author…

For This Palestinian Cook, The Kitchen Is A Powerful Place — Not A Life Sentence

On her identity as a Palestinian being inherently political It s comical because all it takes is for me to use the word Palestinian and anything that I want to talk about no matter how far removed from politics suddenly is political. But at the same time . as Palestinians, as a people that do live under occupation, who are fighting for justice, it s hard to separate that reality from anything else that we do. Every person goes about it in a different way. I am in the food and writing world, and that s how I try to address or deal with that issue, from that angle. And someone else in a different sphere might deal with it from a different angle. . It can be a land mine, but it shouldn t be. . Food is the lowest common denominator we all have. . Regardless of where you come from or what religion you are or what your beliefs are, you have to eat.

For Palestinian Cook Reem Kassis, The Kitchen Is A Powerful Place : NPR

Dan Perez/Phaidon Press toggle caption Dan Perez/Phaidon Press Cookbook author Reem Kassis says that many foods that are considered Middle Eastern or Israeli actually originated as Palestinian dishes. Dan Perez/Phaidon Press Growing up in East Jerusalem, Palestinian cookbook author Reem Kassis never expected to enter the food industry. For her, the kitchen represented a life sentence for women. Instead, Kassis moved to the U.S. when she was 17, first studying business at the University of Pennsylvania s Wharton School and then at the London School of Economics. It wasn t until she had a child that she began to see the kitchen as a powerful place where she could share important stories about food and culture with her daughter.

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