As the street food spread through the Arab world, ingredients shifted with larders and tastes: Palestinian cooks tend to prefer solely chickpeas in their falafel; the Lebanese often combine garbanzos and foul.
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Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2024
In addition, the chefs dug into their culinary larders, adding personal touches.
For all the shortcomings in this nationwide effort, most Germans today set an example of remorse that shames Turkish nationalist leaders equivocating about the Armenian genocide, or rightist Japanese politicians visiting the Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo that honors Class A war criminals.
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Gary J. Bass,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
Villagers plundered the shrine and sold the bronzes to antiquities dealers like Robert Hecht, who faced allegations of smuggling before his death in 2012.
—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Feb. 2025
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