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WORLD FARE: A taste of the Middle East in the College Area

September 7, 2017 mgardiner

WORLD FARE: A taste of the Middle East in the College Area

Maybe I should have known or at least suspected. Middle Eastern restaurants in lightly retrofitted chain spots are hardly unusual, sure. And the light-box pole-top sign depicting a vaguely Arabic castle inside a walled city added little to the equation. But it was the other sign … [Read more...]

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WORLD FARE: Ishtar Restaurant: fighting ISIS one falafel at a time

March 1, 2017 mgardiner

WORLD FARE: Ishtar Restaurant: fighting ISIS one falafel at a time

There was once an old Vietnam-era slogan on posters, buttons, bumper stickers and T-shirts. Today it would, no doubt, be a ubiquitous Facebook meme: Join the Army; travel to exotic, distant lands; meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.   It had resonance because it … [Read more...]

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