An odd local food dynamic is changing in Jordan.
Tagine, here, is an artform. I've been on this planet for over a quarter of a century and why is it only now that I've come to Morocco?
It's a family production, this sun-dried tomato business. And like all good things, it's simple.
Finally, dessert was served. Dark chocolate fondante with fragrant Tonka beans and red berry syrup, and a passion fruit custard with jeweled fresh fruit and miniature macarons.
Caffè Strada serves Attibassi coffee in Amman. Strada (as the Rainbow Street hipsters call it) is stripped-down cool, authentically Rainbow Street on the outside, sleek and modern on the inside. It's community, a happy place with time-honored coffee and honest tea.
If you want to listen to a funny story about tomatoes and group of hungry hippos, Ernesto Sirolli tells a great one. The story is as colorful as its teller, but the moral is sobering: if you really want to help people, you have to just shut up and listen.
