After this class every morning I go back to my apartment and make breakfast, which got me thinking about what a typical breakfast would be like if we were in the middle east. Thinking about a typical on the go breakfast for me would be an apple and a cheese stick, maybe if I have more time I can have bacon and eggs! To me that seems like a pretty basic breakfast for the U.S.! After doing some research I discovered that breakfast is very different in Islam and the middle east!
Some common breakfast foods in the middle east are fool, falafel, hummus, pita bread, kaek, and tea! I had no clue what most of these were, but once I kept reading I was pretty surprised! Fool is similar to hummus, they are in the same food family! Fool is the Arabic word for fava beans. Falafel is a dish made from spiced mashed chickpeas that are formed into balls and then deep fried, they are usually eaten with pita bread! Hummus and pita bread are something that we are pretty familiar with here in the west, but I have never thought of that combo as a breakfast food! Kaek is a sesame topped bread, they are bought and sold in carts on the street, the bread is often made into sandwiches with cheese, falafel, or oven baked eggs! Lastly tea, they will usually have tea with fresh mint or dried sage with their breakfast!
looking at the differences between our more western breakfast and the breakfast foods from the middle east there are a lot of differences! The culture in places in the middle east tends to be a large breakfast that is very savory, whereas here in the U.S. some people don’t even eat breakfast! But here we have many more sweet options for breakfast dished such as pancakes and waffles!
here is the website where I got my info from!! There are some pretty good pictures on the website!
Thank you for looking into what people eat for breakfast in the parts of the world we are studying this semester. If you try any of these dishes let me know – I think that deserves points!