71 – Hidden Kitchen Gaza: A Palestinian Culinary Journey
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The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia
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🗓️ 23 May 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Author and journalist, Laila El-Haddad takes us into the hidden world of Gaza through the kitchen. Interweaving history, personal experiences and stories of food, family and daily life, El-Haddad paints a vivid picture of her family’s homeland and some of the issues facing people living in Gaza and the Middle East.
We also hear from Jon Rubin, co-founder of Conflict Kitchen, a restaurant/art project in Pittsburg PA that sells food from countries the United States is in conflict with. One of the most controversial iterations of Conflict Kitchen took place in 2014 when their food and conversation turned to Palestine. The restaurant featured recipes from The Gaza Kitchen and Laila El-Haddad was an invited speaker.
Laila El-Haddad is co-author of “The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey” (with Maggie Schmitt) and author of “Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between.”
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| 1:15.0 | Today the Kitchen Sisters present |
| 1:19.0 | The Gaza Kitchen, |
| 1:20.0 | a Palestinian culinary journey with author L. Haddad. |
| 1:25.0 | When we first began work on our latest season of hidden kitchen stories called Kimchi Diplomacy, |
| 1:32.0 | War and Peace and Food, we quickly began hearing about a place called |
| 1:36.1 | Conflict Kitchen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:39.7 | My name is John Rubin. |
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