https://picturingjordan.com/tags/baklava/ Recent content in Baklava on Picturing Jordan Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a <a rel='license' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/'>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license</a>. Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:15:16 +0300 https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/buying-baklava-amman/ Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:15:16 +0300 https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/buying-baklava-amman/ <figure> <img src="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/IMG_20160810_160953.jpg" alt="Young child smiling and wrapping up baklava in a shop in Amman"/> <figcaption> <h4>Everybody likes baklava!</h4> </figcaption> </figure> <p>There&rsquo;s a shop in Amman&rsquo;s main market downtown that sells traditional Arabic sweets. I&rsquo;m not sure who was more excited about this half-kilogram of baklava (which is called &ldquo;<em>baklawa</em>&rdquo; in Arabic) — me, or the jovial young Jordanian selling it.</p>