From the moment his assignment landed in his lap, Eric knew he wanted to try his hand at Turkish ice cream. The dish is made famous by videos of tricky ice cream vendors flipping cones and scoops back and forth between themselves and waiting customers…
Category: Middle East
Assignment 127: Iran
For this assignment, we were joined by a few friends, which I always love. Eating should be a communal experience whenever possible, I believe, and this is even more the case for Wooden Spoon Wanderer assignments, when the table is extra full…
Assignment 116: Kuwait
Sometimes it’s weeks or even months between assignments, as we juggle life and work, source hard-to-find ingredients, or just put the blog on the back-burner for a while and wait for inspiration to strike again. This time, however, Eric did his assignment less than a week…
Assignment 109: Iraq
This fall, Eric and I moved into a new home. The kitchen was one of our favourite features when we first saw the house — with lots of natural light, a large oven, and plenty of counter space, we could both envisage the dinners that would be made there.
Assignment 71: Saudi Arabia
I ordered a couple of cookbooks from the library for this assignment. One ended up being more focused on Lebanon, but the second book, the Arabian Nights Cookbook, yielded loads of Saudi dishes (among others — the book covers the whole Arabian Gulf area). I sought to build a…
Assignment 29: Egypt
I picked up a fantastic cookbook at a used bookstore a few weeks ago that I finally got to crack open for this assignment: The Africa Cookbook by Jessica B. Harris. I found four recipes there that I wanted to try for Egypt, and found another two online…
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