Hanim Esra Lokum grew up in Türkiye where lokum was not a souvenir or a novelty — it was simply available, in every market and every household, offered with tea as a matter of course. Soft, dusted with powdered sugar, scented with rose or flavored with pistachio or mastic, it was the sweet that appeared […]

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Imaye Dabo grew up in the Beta Israel community where dabo was not everyday bread — it was Shabbat bread, holiday bread, bread that marked the moments that mattered. Sweetened with honey and spiced with coriander, cardamom, cinnamon, and fenugreek, it was traditionally wrapped in banana leaves and slow-baked, then brought to be blessed before […]

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