Aleppo Cuisine and Food Heritage
Taste Aleppo cuisine, considered the finest in Syria and one of the great culinary traditions of the Arab world, where the distinctive Aleppo pepper, cherry rice dishes, and elaborate pastries reflect the city Silk Road heritage.
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Aleppo Pepper Experience
Discover the Aleppo pepper, the mildly hot, slightly fruity red pepper that is the signature ingredient of Aleppan cuisine, used in everything from meat dishes to pastries and available in every spice shop in the old city market.
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Kebab Restaurants
Eat at a traditional Aleppo kebab restaurant where the distinctive local preparations including karaz kebab with sour cherry sauce and fatteh dishes reflect the Persian influence on Aleppan cooking absorbed along the Silk Road trade routes.
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Cherry Rice Dishes
Try the famous Aleppo cherry rice dishes where sour cherries are combined with lamb and rice in preparations unique to this city, the culinary influence of the cherry orchards in the surrounding Syrian countryside on the local cuisine.
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Traditional Pastries
Sample the elaborate Aleppo pastries from one of the old city sweet shops, the baklava, maamoul, and halva of Aleppo distinguished by their use of local pistachios and the distinctive flavoring traditions of Syrian confectionery.
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Old City Restaurants
Dine in one of the restored Aleppo old city restaurants where traditional courtyard houses provide atmospheric settings for the extraordinary Syrian-Aleppan cuisine, the revival of the restaurant scene part of the broader cultural reconstruction of the city.
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Food Market
Browse the food market where the ingredients of Aleppan cooking are assembled: the local olive oil, the fresh herbs, the dried fruits, the pistachios, and the pomegranate molasses that give the cuisine its distinctive Levantine character.
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