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<h2class="blog-post-title"><ahref="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/buying-baklava-amman/"title="Buying Baklava in Amman">Buying Baklava in Amman</a></h2>
<pclass="blog-post-meta"><timedatetime="2016-09-23T11:15:16+03:00">Fri Sep 23, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<h4>Everybody likes baklava!</h4>
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<p>There’s a shop in one of Amman’s downtown markets that sells traditional sweets. I’m not sure who was more excited about this half kilo of <em>baklawa</em> — me, or the jovial young Jordanian selling it.</p>
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