Grandmother’s Wisdom and Recipes for the Future
Grandmother’s Wisdom and Recipes for the Future Grandmother’s Wisdom and Recipes for the Future: A Journey Through Time to Uncover the Secrets of Health at the Heart of the Arab World The first time I truly understood healing, I wasn’t in a hospital. I was kneeling on a sun-baked kitchen floor in a village near Nablus, watching my teta grind za’atar with a mortar and pestle. Her hands—knotted with arthritis yet steady as stone—moved with a rhythm older than textbooks. “The body remembers what the mind forgets,” she said, handing me a cup of sage tea sweetened with a single date. I was home from medical school, arrogant with diplomas and diagnoses, yet humbled by the quiet certainty in her eyes. Years later, as a practicing physician, I find myself returning to that kitchen again and again—not in person, but in reflection. In a region where ancient trade routes once carried spices and stories across deserts and seas, our health traditions are as layered as...