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Date: 11 Feb 2010
From:Alexis Neme <alexis.neme at gmail.com>
Subject:kul wa-ushkur

Dear Li,
"Kul wa-ushkur"  is actual and is  a traditional small and round piece of baklawa. The standard baklawa is lozenge. All are made with  is a "feuillette' avec de la pate de pignon a la base" as all traditional baklawa. You can find it in "Hallab sweet", Tripoli - Lebanon. is it the same as in "The Arabian Nights" ? I do not know.  Hope this will help ! 
Cheers,
Alexis 

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Date: 11 Feb 2010
From:katia zakharia <katia.zakharia at mom.fr>
Subject:kul wa-ushkur

Today's "kull wa-shkur" are small cubes of baklawa, generally stuff with walnut. If you want to see what it looks like, google in arabic their name and click on "images". But I don't know if the Nights' lady did buy the
same...
As for the name, when I was a kid (quite a long time ago), some people claimed that it was so delicious and so easy to eat, little bite by little bite, that you couldn't help eating more and more. So you had to thank God for such heavenly sweets.
Sahteen...
KZ

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Date: 11 Feb 2010
From:Mai Zaki <maizaki at gmail.com>
Subject:kul wa-ushkur

Hi Li,

I am not hundred percent sure but I think kul weshkur is an Egyptian sweet that dates back to the time of the Faitmids.. It is still common in Egypt, and it is normally around in the time of the eids (esp. during and after ramadan) with all the other ramadan sweets of kahk, 3'orayeba, baklawa, basbusa and all kinds of biscuits.. As a sweet person myself, I have eaten it before although for me it didn't seem to have a very distinct flavour from baklawa.. I would love to know the story behind the name if anyone knows, but other Egyptian sweets have weird names as well, such as "3ein el set" (the lady's eye), "remoosh el set" (the lady's eyelashes), etc. 

This is a link to kul weshkur recipe (in Arabic)

http://food.fatakat.com/recipe307.html

Hope this helps..

Mai Zaki
Middlesex University

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Date: 11 Feb 2010
From:Sue <s_tharwat at hotmail.com>
Subject:kul wa-ushkur

You are right it is some kind of sweets from syriaque

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Date: 11 Feb 2010
From:Michael Akard <akardm at yosemite.edu>
Subject:kul wa-ushkur

When my wife and I lived in Kuwait, we were introduced to a delicious pastry by that name. It was similar to baklava – constructed of filo dough, crushed nuts inside, and topped with a sweet glaze. This prompted my ever-creative spouse to invent her own delicacy, which she named “skoot wa-kul” or, “shut up and eat it!”
 
Michael Akard
Modesto, California

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Date: 11 Feb 2010
From:Angelo Parisi <stateofmind1967 at yahoo.com>
Subject:kul wa-ushkur

This is an Egyptian dialect famous old saying. There is a restaurant in Cairo with this name, and it means: Eat ( command verb ) and thank God for ( another command verb ) his gift to you ( in this case food ).

Emad Eldigwy, Dean
Concordia College Arabic Language Village

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Date: 11 Feb 2010
From:Reshetun-Belikova Anna <areshetun at rttv.ru>
Subject:kul wa-ushkur

Hello! I understand that the expression "kul wa ushkur" - "eat and thank" 
(Imperative form) is used as an answer to the thanks for generous treatment. 
Actually it means "eat and thank the God" (you have to give thanks to the 
God) For instance:
- Thank you, you cooked so much for us, everything looks so tasty!
- Eat and thank - Kul wa ushkur (thank the God for the food)!

Anna Reshetun-Belikova
e-mail:areshetun at rttv.ru

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Date: 11 Feb 2010
From:sona el bonboonah <sgadgad67 at hotmail.com>
Subject:kul wa-ushkur

It means eat and thank God. People should thank God for everything and anything. Having food by itself is a blessing of God. 

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