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Ramadan, A Time To Fast, But Also A Time to Celebrate Food

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🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

During Ramadan, observant Muslims who are able to fast from sunrise to sunset, eating and drinking nothing. It is not a surprise then that food takes on a special, and often celebratory, meaning during this month-long spiritual reset. And in the Bay Area, the food prepared during Ramadan, whether it’s suhoor, the pre-sunrise meal before the fast begins or iftar, the meal eaten to break the fast, reflects the diversity of the Muslim diaspora itself. On the next “All You Can Eat,” our series on Bay Area food cultures, we’ll talk with restaurateurs about how they mark this time, how they break fast, and what it’s like to keep your restaurant open until the early morning hours for a meal that goes from dusk to dawn. What is your Ramadan tradition and how does the holiday change your relationship with food? Guests: Luke Tsai, food editor, KQED Arts & Culture Reem Assil, chef, Reem's California; author, "Arabiyya: Recipes From the Life of An Arab in Diaspora" Hisham Abdelfattah, founder and owner, El Halal Amigos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ramadan Mubarak.

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It is Ramadan, the month-long religious tradition,

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in which, as part of their spiritual practice,

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observant Muslims do not

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eat between dawn and sunset. Food then takes on a special and often celebratory meaning during

1:00.0

this holy month, and the food prepared during Ramadan, whether it's Sahur, the pre-sunrise

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meal before the fast begins, or Iftar, the meal eaten to break the fast, reflects the diversity

1:10.5

of the Muslim diaspora here in the Bay.

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So, for this installment of All You Can Eat with Luke Sai,

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we talk with Bay Area Muslims about how they mark this time, how they break fast,

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and what it's like to keep your restaurant open overnight for that pre-fast meal.

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That's all coming up next after this news.

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Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. It may seem counterintuitive to do a food show during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. But for many families, Ramadan is a time

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of togetherness that brings out particular and beloved culinary traditions. Getting up earlier than the

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