Nutraffin; Shabakia

[Orin Hargraves]

Regarding . . .

 SHABAKIA
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I ate at Galil Restaurant,1252 Lexington Avenue (between 84th and 86th
Strrets), Kosher Moroccan Cuisine. The "hummus" was OK. For dessert, I saw
"Shabakia" and I don't think I've recorded that.
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(GOOGLE)
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_Submission Guidlines_ (http://www.dragonlordsnet.com/submit.htm)
... shabakia, shah-bah-KEY-uh, A cookie made with honey, sesame seeds and
spices.

A more accurate transliteration would be shebbakia, and in Morocco it's
pronounced sh-BAK-ia; derived from shbbak, the dialect word for window (or
iron grillwork thereof, which the cookie resembles). A familiar site is a
stack of these for sale in a souk with bees and wasps buzzing around them.

Orin Hargraves