With the opening of Aleppo Restaurant at Main and Thomas streets in Paterson, I have more opportunity than ever to get in touch with my culinary roots. My parents were Sephardic Jews born in the northern Syrian city -- he the son of a pastry maker and she a rabbi's daughter who would go on to self-publish the first cookbook in Brooklyn's Syrian Jewish community.
Now, I have come across a food blog called "Syrian Foodie in London," lovingly written by a doctor, and this video of a falafel stand in Aleppo. If this doesn't make you hungry, I don't know what will. The metal bowls you'll see are filled with sprigs of mint, a nice accent for the yogurt sauce you can have on your falafel. I visited my parents' birthplace briefly in the late 1970s and ate lots of terrific food, but didn't get a chance to try the falafel.
http://syrianfoodie.blogspot.com/2009/09/worlds-fastest-falafel-maker.html
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