Matbakh | Food of the Arab World

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What Is Armenian Food? | Aline Kamakian

Over a shared meal at Mayrig restaurant in Beirut, we sit down with Aline Kamakian, the restaurant's creator, to discuss and get a taste of Armenia's rich food history and the diasporic evolution of what she calls this "cuisine of contrasts". Aline shares her own family's history ... Show more

. 1h 16min

The History of Coffee From Yemen to the World | Mokhtar Alkhanshali

Mokhtar Alkhanshali is a historian, community organizer, and coffee innovator. He is the founder and CEO of Port of Mokha, which seeks to reverse Yemen’s nearly lost art of coffee cultivation. He has also established the Mokha Institute.Explore the Port of Mokha 👉 https://portof ... Show more

. 56min 35sec

How Did the Emirates Evolve Into a Food-Loving Country? | Sahar Parham Al Awadhi

Sahar Parham Al Awadhi is an award-winning pastry chef who was the inaugural winner of the Best Pastry Chef Award of the 50 Best's Middle East & North Africa list. She started her career at La Serre Bistro & Boulangerie in downtown Dubai and in 2016, joined Burj Al Arab becoming ... Show more

. 48min 1sec

Al-Tujibi's 13th Century Andalusian Cookbook | Daniel Newman

Daniel Newman is the chair of Arabic Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures in the University of Durham. His main areas of interest include Arab food history and Arabic geographical and travel literature. He is the founder of eatlikeasultan.com, a website dedicate ... Show more

. 1h 3min

Iraqi-Jewish Food Culture & the Jews of Baghdad | Awafi Kitchen

This episode of Matbakh features Annabel "Nibal" and Sam Rabiyah, the sibling duo behind The Awafi Kitchen: a Boston-based pop-up culinary space dedicated to sharing Iraqi-Jewish food culture. This conversation looks at using food as a platform for holding onto culture, heritage ... Show more

. 1h 0min