As the helpless vampire watched the transformation, it started screaming. It was still screaming when his rows of razor sharp teeth sank into its throat.
Dad says that everyone invented baklava._ It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes.__our father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.
The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
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Dad says that everyone invented baklava._ It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes.__our father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.
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