this kind of grim, you know, cinderblock landscape. you re not entering into the private homes and what does a kitchen look like, and what does, you know a family you see here. laila: do you like it, she s asking. anthony: oh it s absolutely delicious. really, really good. laila: yeah? she wants you to open a restaurant for her. [ laughs ] anthony: keep cooking like this, it s really delicious. laila: gaza has three distinctive, culinary heritages. those who hail from villages that were either depopulated or destroyed in 1948, uh-and they constitute about 75% of the population of gaza. and they kind of bring with them their own distinct cuisine. that s very different from the cuisine of the city-gaza city, which tends to use much more heat, much more chili peppers. anthony: right. laila: from the cuisine of the coast, which is rich uh-with seafood of course, and a very sophisticated, very urbane cuisine.
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[ speaks arabic ] they re very concerned that we re being very rude and we re not. anthony: yeah eat. laila: we re not allowing, no the others to eat. no, he s saying how can you be eating and you re letting everyone stand. anthony: wow. laila: for me, being from gaza, being a child of diaspora, i always thought food was a really 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 damn good. anthony: right that it is. laila: and it was i think 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 i m on arabic channels or abroad, you know, is this kind of very caricatured images of, you know, gunmen and you know, wailing women, and
interest. so, off we go. i figure, this ll take a minute. anthony: we arrive at what looks like a pretty serious gathering. this is a diwan and we re soon joined by un sultan s husband, abu. laila: it s an area where kind of where the elders gather to, you know, resolve community problems, to you know, kind of advise. anthony: all of these guys are from biral sabi, now part of israel. so they re bound together by traditions and a way of life very different from here, where they have been relocated and lived since 1948. anthony: does he think he ll be able to go to his ancestral homeland in his lifetime? his children s lifetime? what s his guess? elder man 1: we will return. our quran, our instrument, told us this. it s told this enemy back me.
nate dalkowitz runs a restaurant just seven miles from the gaza strip. anthony: you and your family have paid the worst imaginable price. nate: yes, my daughter was killed by a mortar sent by hamas. anthony: in some israeli towns and villages within close proximity of the gaza strip, bus stops double as bomb shelters and air raid sirens warn of incoming missiles fired from less than a mile away. rockets and mortar shells have been known to fall from the sky in these parts and no one understands the consequences more than this man. anthony: you were not a fervent ideological zionist. nate: no. anthony: you re not an orthodox jew. nate: no. anthony: and yet here you are at the spear point, right at the uh, there s your restaurant. nate: this is a shelter. anthony: there s a shelter. here you are.
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