Dad says that everyone invented baklava. ” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt … - Diana Abu-Jaber

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Diana Abu-Jaber

Dad says that everyone invented baklava. ” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes. “Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.

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