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Middle Eastern cuisine

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Also known as Middle Eastern food, cuisine of the Middle East, Middle Eastern cuisines, Middle-Eastern cuisine

type of regional cuisine

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Encyclopedic overview

Middle East bakery in the 1910s. Photo by National Geographic

Middle Eastern cuisine includes a number of cuisines from the Middle East. Common ingredients include olives and olive oil, pitas, honey, sesame seeds, dates, sumac, chickpeas, mint, rice and parsley, and popular dishes include kebabs, dolmas, falafel, baklava, yogurt, doner kebab, shawarma and mulukhiyah.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Middle Eastern cuisine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.