Chef Fadi and historian Kotoz find out about Silk Street retailers who introduced unique spices to Europe and the Arab world.
A historian and a chef go on a culinary journey via historical past to find the roots of Arab delicacies and its affect on the meals and flavours of at present. Kotoz Ahmed, a researcher in Arabian meals historical past, and Fadi Kattan, a famend Palestinian chef, journey Europe in quest of recipe manuscripts from the times of the previous Arab dynasties and empires. On this remaining episode, they find out how Cairo turned an influential cultural hub, because the Silk Street linked Egypt to China, Russia, India, Iraq and the Levantine retailers, controlling the spice commerce in the course of the Mamluk period. Aleppo was additionally an necessary melting pot, on the crossroads of a number of commerce routes – one among its Thirteenth-century books launched the thought of meals as pleasure, bringing perfumes, fragrances and medicinal oils into cookery, an innovation on the time. Kotoz finishes by cooking al Mashoka, that means “The Adored”, utilizing unique substances from Arabia, Aleppo and spices from the Far East.
