tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203628.post5939352074435653190..comments2007-09-12T07:19:51.668+02:00Maryanne Stroud Gabbanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858132776788616956noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203628.post-80379059101782326372007-09-11T22:59:00.000+02:002007-09-11T22:59:00.000+02:00i thought olokhiya was "jew's mallow" and gargeer was rocket. <BR/><BR/>the levantines love molokhiya, but they make it differently than we do (lemon?? cilantro??). they don't chop up the leaves all small like we do.Forsoothsayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765993032234113659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203628.post-23538360910265951682007-09-11T04:31:00.000+02:002007-09-11T04:31:00.000+02:00I just read the New Yorker article about Claudia Roden and given what I've read here about the cooking... time to buy a new book I think....:) Or a couple of books...oh dear. <BR/><BR/><BR/>g<BR/>TorontoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203628.post-23095712733108294412007-09-06T16:00:00.000+03:002007-09-06T16:00:00.000+03:00Today I want eat two times...Tondo Rotondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08394571876466562800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203628.post-67979229917142319872007-09-05T20:02:00.000+03:002007-09-05T20:02:00.000+03:00I truly enjoy your posts where you talk about the every day life in Egypt... the food, the culture. I can hardly believe it's been almost a year already since I was there, but planning to come back again soon. It's an amazing country.Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960617637819340725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203628.post-7991582639663611042007-09-02T18:24:00.000+03:002007-09-02T18:24:00.000+03:00Getting very hungry...at work...no way to get food...argh!!Akinolunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04636404807941246640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203628.post-58300883801248601522007-08-31T21:09:00.000+03:002007-08-31T21:09:00.000+03:00Hah! While we were all emailing and commenting on each other's blogs this morning between 10 and 11 AM Pacific Time, Rami Zurayk just blogged Maryanne's <A HREF="http://landandpeople.blogspot.com/2007/08/egypt-farm-food.html" REL="nofollow">food post</A>.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes the internet is so much fun. However I ought to get back to work - have to plan for the class I'm teaching. Thank you Maryanne and Rami for such an entertaining hour of farm-and-food blogging.Leilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14161833022292457787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203628.post-74305172591001997872007-08-31T21:00:00.000+03:002007-08-31T21:00:00.000+03:00I'll have to try your version. Claudia Roden was my first Middle Eastern cookbook and still the best I think. I've bought copies for my kids who are currently in grad school exile in the US.Maryanne Stroud Gabbanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858132776788616956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203628.post-30383902559048031742007-08-31T20:40:00.000+03:002007-08-31T20:40:00.000+03:00Re: molokheya - The latest issue of hte New Yorker magazine has a profile of Claudia Roden, Egyptian-British cookbook writer. She tells the reporter all about molokheya and claims that only Egyptians like it. I am going to have to write to her about this (I otherwise worship Claudia Roden and use her cookbooks extensively). My Lebanese family is crazy for molokheya, to the point where they worry themselves sick trying to make the stuff grow in American climates that are not hospitable. WHen I went to Egypt for my junior year abroad I was happy to eat molokhiya over rice - with lemon I think. Yum, yum, yum. We put fresh cilantro into it at the last. <BR/><BR/>No, the Egyptians are not the only ones who love it. Count the Lebanese, and I'm pretty sure the Palestinians, too.<BR/><BR/>Another term for molokhiya in English (according to my Lebanese edition dictionary) is "Jew's Mallow." Interesting, huh?Leilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14161833022292457787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203628.post-39345445546997916432007-08-31T20:30:00.000+03:002007-08-31T20:30:00.000+03:00THis is fabulous. I am sending the link over to Prof. Rami Zurayk at land and people blog. He's an agriculture and sustainable development specialist in Lebanon and is devoted to local food. I think he will appreciate this post. If you haven't found his blog yet, you might like it.<BR/><BR/>landandpeople.blogspot.comLeilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14161833022292457787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203628.post-501306925955479802007-08-31T17:10:00.000+03:002007-08-31T17:10:00.000+03:00the crop's of bambia flowers are lovelyTondo Rotondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08394571876466562800noreply@blogger.com