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Dessert
You need to make this when the sun is out, shining bright and golden. Usually around 4 pm when your cravings begins to distract your focused mind from reading. It must be quick, because you never know when the British weather shall betray you with noisy rain and winds strong enough to tip over cut Continue reading
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The soft lunch that ended a relationship
Many years had passed. I cannot tell you how many, because I don’t know when it came to the kind of end that allowed years to pass. All I know is that we spoke, we fucked, we fought, and then I did not hear his voice for years. Until one morning, when he woke me Continue reading
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Eating Crab Is Brutal Lovemaking
If you are able to ignore the gleaming row of renowned restaurants that line up near the Jumeirah road and walk further inside through the tiny gullies, you will come across the fishermen’s residence. Right beside it is a parking lot that is home to two different seafood restaurants. The first is Bu Qtair. The Continue reading
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“Ew, fish”
Was a very common phrase I heard while growing up. The repulsion that fish has the power to bring about in vegetarians around me was something I was used to witnessing. Fish was supposed to be disgusting. Of course, those who thought this way had never bothered to try it. It was disgusting because of Continue reading
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Baking Buns
The yeast was not forming bubbles in the water. Not after five minutes, not even after ten minutes, and definitely not after I had finished reading two more chapters. But the yeast water definitely smelled like yeast. So I made a little hole right at the center of my flour and salt mixture, and drowned Continue reading
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