Posts Tagged: arabic

  • Old image of a merchant handing money to a monarch with the caption: “To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff, and it’s my favorite [sic] word.”

    Tariff, tariff, tariff the most beautiful word in the dictionary

    “Tariff” is the word of the moment. All we are hearing at the moment is “tarff, tariff, tariff” after Trump has announced he is imposing tariffs on friends and foe alike—China, Canada, Mexico, the European Union and, of course, Australia. And it is not new for the rest of the world to think that “with […]

  • It's a zarf. Tim Entwisle with a zarf.

    It’s a zarf!

    Recently I went out with some friends for dinner. They had chosen a Turkish restaurant in Newtown, in the Inner West of Sydney, very appropriately called Ottoman’s. We ordered too much of the delightful food. Feeling a bit gorged we decided to have a Turkish coffee at the restaurant rather than going to a nearby […]

  • Feasting at christmas

    Feasting and fasting

    Christian and other religions have commemorative days we know as festivals. A festival is a celebration or commemoration where participants rejoice and seek to find an elated state. Festivals are often celebrated by abundant eating and drinking. Therefore, festival days and feast days are the same thing. And, not surprisingly, the words feast and festival […]

  • Falafel are made from chickpeas

    Fighting over falafels

    My daughter has recently become a vegetarian so we are now eating a lot of new things. Our favourite is falafel. We make our own—the main ingredient being chickpeas ground up with a few spices and vegetables and deep-fried. Chickpeas have been eaten throughout human history. Wild chickpeas have been found in a cave in […]