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Hey everyone, Dan here with another reheat. And as we sit here today, it is Ramadan,

the holiest time of the year for Muslims. So it's the perfect opportunity to reheat a Ramadan

episode that we did a few years

back. For this one, I spoke with Sahar Arafat Ray, a Palestinian Texan cooking teacher who rediscovered her

Muslim roots in her 30s. And later in the episode, and this part, I still remember like it was yesterday,

because it was such a special experience. I break the Ramadan fast with some taxi drivers in New York

City and what turned out to be a very real and fast-moving New York City cabby Iftar experience.

Now remember, there's an episode of The Sporkful. You want us to reheat.

Drop me a line at hello at sporkful.com.

Thanks, Ramadan Mubarak to everyone who celebrates and enjoy.

Right now, Muslims across the world are celebrating Ramadan.

Ramadan is the holiest month of the Muslim calendar.

It's when Muslims believe the Quran was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.

During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk every day for 30 days.

That's right, 30 straight days they don't eat or drink anything while the sun is up.

It's intense.

I had a friend who worked for the Saudi embassy in Houston, and she's not Muslim.

But she, so she went to lunch during it was during

Ramadan she said she came back and she saw one of her co-workers who definitely was

Muslims crouched behind a car shoving a big Mac in his mouth so and he gave her this look like

don't tell anybody so even the best of us managed you, you know, slip a little.

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