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    Food

    Into the Archives: Revisiting Syria, 20 Years Later

    Clifford Wright, food anthropologist and author of a 1997 SAVEUR story on Syria and its beloved artichokes, weighs in on the country once called the Paris of the Arab culinary world

    By Allie Wist
    March 21, 2017

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