{"id":605,"date":"2011-01-10T18:31:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2011-01-10T18:31:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:31:32","slug":"cous-cous-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/10\/cous-cous-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Cous Cous Crossroads (Saudi Aramco World)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest story, in the Jan\/Feb edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudiaramcoworld.com\/issue\/201101\/couscous.crossroads.htm\">Saudi Aramco World<\/a>, on the Arab influence on Sicilian food. Photographed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toreigeland.com\/\">Tor Eigeland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-606\" style=\"width: 539px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/cous-cous-closeup.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-606\" title=\"Cous cous closeup\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/cous-cous-closeup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making cous cous \u00a9 Tor Eigeland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The word <em>couscous<\/em> derives from the Maghrebi Arabic <em>kuskusu<\/em>, and the Sicilian <em>cuscus<\/em> has long existed in both folk memory and the kitchens of Sicily\u2019s western Arab heartland. It is via the Maghreb, however, that couscous is flourishing again in Sicily, reintroduced by migrants from North and West Africa who have settled on the island during the last few decades. Sicilians have enthusiastically revived the dish, cooking it more often with fish than with meat (usually mutton), which would be more usual in the Maghreb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#808080;\"><em>All material is copyright \u00a9 Gail Simmons. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part, by any means, is forbidden without the written consent of the copyright holder.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest story, in the Jan\/Feb edition of Saudi Aramco World, on the Arab influence on Sicilian food. Photographed by Tor Eigeland. &#8220;The word couscous derives from the Maghrebi Arabic kuskusu, and the Sicilian cuscus has long existed in both folk memory and the kitchens of Sicily\u2019s western Arab heartland. It is via the Maghreb, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[21,44,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}