Thanks for your nice post and ME style hugs I return it with kisses and a Reiki hug for you too. All love

I found this post and comments because of the Reiki mentioned, was linked here from the reiki digest blog. Just wanted to say Leah’s post and the comments are very inspiring and full of hope. Wish you all the best and I agree with Leah about a new world order emerging – all speed to it! Lots of Reiki hugs to you all and best wishes from a cold sunny London.
Josh

Leah, in Iran and all the eniboring countries in north-east and east call a dish of steamed or cooked rice Polo ( polo is Iranian Persian accent) Perhaps in Bukhara they call it polaw. We add any thing to rice, different spices, differnt chopped or cut vegetables and pieces of meat. In Iran we don’t eat very hot food, like Indians or Pakistanis or Arabs ( Arabs make it moderately hot), although the provinces by the borders cook and serve hot dishes. We make the good sweet smelling, and we use Safron for that, which makes the rice especially look yellow- orange, a beautiful color comes out when we add safron to rice.
By the way I love the food from your region which I understand both Israelis and Arabs share, as falafel, humus, baba ganush, Hilba ( a yemenite sauce I assume).

Thank you Elinor for your comments and Omid too. I’m waiting for a borderless middle-east so we can actually visit each other easily and chat over a cuppa tea (or good coffee….), and hope I see it in my lifetime…