tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163876234969175446.post3382395669875430112..comments2024-03-22T10:56:23.359+02:00Comments on Land and People: Aleppo pepperRami Zuraykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14644937988631864952noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163876234969175446.post-6053322220644672842008-07-04T04:20:00.000+03:002008-07-04T04:20:00.000+03:00I didn't look in my copy of Claudia Roden's New Bo...I didn't look in my copy of Claudia Roden's New Book of Middle Eastern Food, but this guy did:<BR/><BR/>http://www.theperfectpantry.com/2008/03/aleppo-pepper.html<BR/><BR/>Roden is a native of Cairo but her family lived in Halab for a thousand years so she should know. <BR/><BR/>The American spice merchant Penzey's carries it, calling it a Turkish pepper. but of course it must originate in Aleppo, due to the name?<BR/><BR/>http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/p-penzeysaleppopepper.html<BR/><BR/>I'd heard about it online a decade ago and thought to ask a spice merchant for it in Beirut in 2000. He told me that it's hard to get and you don't see it around much. He acted like he had heard of it though.<BR/><BR/>When you go to a kafta place, like the one in Tripoli across from the police station, don't they usually offer a "Halabi" kafta/kibbe? I'm relying on my memory here.<BR/><BR/>Is it possible that in LEbanon the pepper is referred to by a different name? Or (now I'm inventing a story) it was associated with the Turks and fell out of favor after 1918?Leila Abu-Sabahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14161833022292457787noreply@blogger.com