My mother never baked cookies when we were growing up. She baked sweetened ricotta dumplings, soaked in a thickened, sweet milk and garnished with slivered almonds and pistachios. Ras malai, a creamy, ...
"When I saw the flowers sprouting, my joy was immense," says Syrian farmer Osama Sallat who owns a land in Binnish in Syria's northwestern Idlib province where farmers pick saffron flowers. Sallat ...