Ramandan is 'about more than celebratory meals. It’s about family getting together on an almost nightly basis, giving us something to celebrate,' Reem Kassis writes. Here are some recipes to enjoy together over the month.
My uncle, with his bare hands, was macerating limes and lemons with sugar in a stainless steel pot, the smell of orange blossom water wafting through the air. He was prepping the lemonade that accompanied every Ramadan iftar. My grandmother was passing out comments to my mother and aunts — more salt, less heat, a different tray — as the heady aroma of caramelizing onions crossed paths with the whiff of roasting chicken in the oven.
Ramadan is a time of religious intent and restraint, a time to empathize with those who have less, to be grateful for our blessings, to focus on the spiritual world instead of the material one, to pray, donate to charity, and above all, to spend time with loved ones. If you live in the Arab world, then the arrival of Ramadan is palpable — for Christians and Muslims alike. A cloud of calmness descends, the pace of life becomes more leisurely, work slows down, and food takes center stage.
As I’ve spent more years living outside my home country than in it, Ramadan is the time of year I feel the strongest
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