Jewish food for me was Arabic food. The food that we would have on religious holidays like on Roshashana, all this stuff was like a stuffed grape leaf, or stuffed peppers, and it was a Middle Eastern way of cooking, although Eastern Europeans do stuffed peppers also. Dishes like marakh, which is like a [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Baghdad’
April 16, 2007
The last connection to Baghdad
My grandfather and my grandmother’s brother all left Iraq within years of each other. I don’t think too many people in my family lingered on past 1950. They were all connected and if one member of the family was being exiled, then the entire family and its extensions were also threatened. My [...]
