In the Orange County neighborhood known as Little Arabia, many Muslims break their fast with an iftar buffet after the sun sets.
For non-Muslims, the idea of a fasting for a month while working around food might seem torturous. At this Bell restaurant, the workers are unfazed.“If your focus is to kind of recenter yourself and refocus yourself … that’s what you’re going to get out of it,” he said. “So, spending more time in the mosque, eating less, limiting your food intake.”
Nidal was gently pouring water from a Styrofoam cup into steam trays while Suher observed. The iftar buffet, while now an Aleppo’s Kitchen tradition, is not what she or her husband grew up with. “You’re not going to go out for a Ramadan buffet in Syria,” she said. “Ramadan is a time when you and your neighbors get together, we become like one family,” said Nordin, who grew up in Lebanon. “Let’s say we have four neighbors. The moms get together, this mom cooks this, the other mom cooks one thing, and they share.”
“Ramadan is a time when you and your neighbors get together, we become like one family,” said Sam Nordin, owner of Desert Moon Grill.The support he and the restaurant receive from the Little Arabia community is especially important when American culture can sometimes feel isolating. “In the U.S., everybody’s on his own,” he said. “It’s more separate.”
Some cooks will taste just on the tip of the tongue and spit it out, but El Rida doesn’t do that. “I don’t trust that I’m going to spit it out,” she said with a laugh.
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