Middle Eastern Recipes
In the summer of 2018, ARSIS social intervention team in Diavata Open Centre of Temporary Reception, motivated by the hosted population carried out a series of cooking – pastry workshops with the active participation of the PoCs hosted of Diavata camp.
Groups of women and men have cooked traditional recipes, representative of their own region and culture, in the hospitable facilities of the Youth Support Centres of ARSIS( 42, Ptolemeon str. and 9, Spartis str.).
Cooking workshops were also organised by ARSIS social intervention teams at the Open Accommodation Facilities in Epirus( Doliana, Filipiada, Katsikas – Ioannina, Konitsa).
The preparations of each workshop were beginning with the groups discussing and co-deciding on recipes to cook, recording ingredients, kitchen utensils, cooking pots and all additional required details.
Through the impeccable collaboration and teamwork of all the participants from various Middle Eastern countries, we got to know about new ingredients and recipes; we travelled to flavours, aromas, textures, even stories. We also had the opportunity to participate in the cooking procedure under the guidance of the participants, to be introduced with new cooking techniques, to learn about very interesting information about each cuisine, to discover common elements with the Greek cuisine in regard to tastes and techniques, as well as to eat all together- men and women- at the same table.
This recipe booklet is a proof of this beautiful cooperation, but also a result of a group, intercultural and creative coexistence.
This recipe booklet constitutes an outcome and a souvenir of this beautiful collaboration. It contains all the recipes, necessary ingredients, detailed directions, as well as a rich photographic collection. Each recipe contains a short introduction, including the exact information that the participants delivered to us concerning each dish. It was attempted to record recipes as accurate as possible( ingredients, quantities, instructions) without any intervention or change.
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