Middle Eastern culture wars: The battle of the palates

Credit: The Kitchen Sisters
By James M. Dorsey
Nothing in a swath of land stretching from the Atlantic coast of Africa to China is undisputed.
Food is often emblematic of disputes over identity, history and political claims that underlie an arc of crisis wracked by ethnic and religious conflict; clamour for political, economic, social, national and minorit…
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