No, these are not stills from Sex and the City II. These are pictures of a Bedouin camp in Israel at which I was lucky enough to stay, complete with camels and tents thatched with palm fronds. Bedouins are a desert-dwelling, seminomadic Arab people who make their home in a multitude of Middle Eastern countries. As it happens, Bedouins make a really mean magluba (see below) and a cup of Turkish coffee that'll wake you right up after a strenuous camel ride through the desert.
At the traditional bedouin meal, you eat on pillows as you sit around a large communal platter on which the food is served
At the traditional bedouin meal, you eat on pillows as you sit around a large communal platter on which the food is served
Arabic flatbread with tehina (sesame paste), tomato and cucumber salad, and magluba
What is megluba you ask?: a mixture of lamb meatballs, saffron rice with chickpeas, veggies, and potatoes
Watch out, they spit!
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