Gionna Durham, 13 , left, holds her phone as she has dinner with her sister Gabriela Durham, 17 years old, unseen, on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
was about more than breaking a month-long fast with extended family.A joyous occasion, the
also was marked with visits to the market to get new bangles, wearing her best new clothes and getting hennaed. Not to mention the little envelopes with cash gifts from the adults.“But, of course, food,” said Jillani, a food writer and author of the new cookbook “Pakistan.” “Food is a big part of Eid.”At the center of her grandmother Kulsoom’s table was always
, a delicately spiced rice dish in which the broth that results from cooking bone-in meat is then used to cook the rice. Her uncle would make mutton karahi, diced meat simmered in tomato sauce spiked with ginger and chilies.Cutlets, kebabs, lentil fritters and more rounded out the meal, while dollops of pungent
and a cooling chutney with cilantro and mint cut through all the meat. For dessert were bowls of chopped fruit and
, or semolina vermicelli noodles that are fried then simmered in cardamom-spiced milk.“There is nothing faster and better than solar batteries,” he said. “We should all be moving as fast as we can on generation.”
Officials in Puerto Rico already have warned that there will be a shortage of generation this summer. In addition, the Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1, and it is predicted to be above average, with nine anticipated hurricanes, four of them major.Many in Puerto Rico worry that any storm, regardless of how small, could knock out the grid given its fragile state.
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