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Jed, go write a book if you want to and claim it for the ethnic group of your choice. Poopa is writing about her heritage. Feel free to write about yours. We await publication breathlessly.

On the other hand, the Jews are solely responsible for High Fructose Corn Syrup.

I enjoyed Poopa Dweck's interview....she showed a great deal of pride in her heritage as it is reflected in its cuisine. What a wonderful way to learn about a culture and heritage..especially through its culinary history. It is especially true when discussion of cultural foods is intertwined with a history of the people.

The food you described in your interview is not privy to one religious group… but for more than 100 years that I could trace back… most local residents of Aleppo with Armenian, Christian Orthodox Arabs, Catholic Arabs and Moslems Arabs as well as Jewish Arabs cooked dishes of this type and with much pride and fanfare, all as part of the Syrian Arabic Culture. The origins do come from a wealth of cross border invasions not releavant to one specific religious but a cultural culmination of Arabs, Turks, Greeks, and Armenians and Jews. What a cuisine… One group should not be riding heard on something so special to all who lived and continue to live in that greater part of Syria and the Arabic Culture. I wish you would pluralize your credits as such in a post correction to your Interview.