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The Iraqi-Jewish Shabbat pot that cooks low overnight, so the rice turns deep gold and the whole house smells of cardamom by morning.

Tender semolina cookies pressed in a wooden mold and filled with spiced dates — the cookie I made by the hundred at the bakery for every holiday.

Silky boiled-then-baked pastry sheets layered with feta and parsley — the Istanbul classic that eats like lasagne's pastry cousin.

Whole potatoes simmered, then fried slow and low until glassy-crisp outside and soft within — the Baghdadi-Bombay table's most fought-over dish.

Paper-thin filo layered by hand with green pistachios and bathed in rose-honey syrup — the bakery bestseller, twenty years running.

Grape leaves rolled tight around herbed rice and pine nuts, cooked low with lemon and olive oil — a whole quiet afternoon, worth every minute.