Food, Wine, and Palestine 🍉

Soft power on our palates

Palestinian meal (وجبة فلسطينية),egg tempera on wood - Sliman Mansour, 1980

I have long suspected that, in some shops and on some wine lists, bottles from the Middle East are used purely as wildcards. They’re obscure and “oddball” with a nifty backstory of resilience, cordoned off for the customer that wants something different. I’ll admit that I used th…