Taking on Tamarind, a Staple of Syrian Jewish Cooking, With Aleppos Culinary Ambassador

Published: June 23, 2014, 4 a.m.

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Poopa Dweck is the poster woman for Syrian Jewish cooking. Her cookbook, Aromas of Aleppo, won a National Jewish Book Award. She gives lectures, does cooking demonstrations on television, and travels the world talking about the food of her ancestors. Dweck even has her own line of condiments, featuring specialties such as quince orange-blossom confit.

But if you really want to see Dweck in her element, you score an invitation to visit her at her home kitchen in a seaside town in New Jersey when she\\u2019s got her sleeves up and is elbow deep, once or twice a year, in soaking tamarind. That\\u2019s what producer Emma Morgenstern did...


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