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Truth Seeking Missile
No problem. But I do believe that you are more than capable of reading English and thus reading the facts that I have listed. You see the ancestral homeland of Arabs who again appeared about 3000 years ago, our past ancestors are all those native Semitic people and civilizations of the ME, were spread on a huge geographical area and had trading contacts with several continents (nearby Europe, Africa, South Asia) for millenniums. Look at the quote I have quoted about the 5000 year old ties between the Arabian Peninsula and India for instance.
Moreover there are tropical areas of Southern Hijaz, Southern provinces of KSA and large parts of Yemen and also in Oman where there is even an monsoon season. Called khareef in Arabic.
Khareef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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ere a lot tropical fruit , native as non-native, such as coffee was first cultivated and spread to the remaining world. You had and have to this day wild banana, pineapples, coconut and other tropical fruits growing that are absent in Turkey LET ALONE the Central Asian Steppe. In the North of the Peninsula and Southern Levant where Arabs also lived you have olive trees etc. who are native to the region. You are surrounded by seas and even a ocean. Thus plenty of seafood. There was plenty of food outside of the interior which was always sparsely populated. But even there (Najd) there are large agricultural areas and have always been there due to the underground and the many valleys and wadis. Even to this day the desert areas around Riyadh turn green each and every spring.
Of course the average Joe, no matter where he lived, had not access to as varied a cost as most people have today. That is obvious.
Anyway the point is still that claiming that Turkish cuisine is more diverse than the entire Arab cuisine, which is otherwise very diverse, and more spicy than the whole Arab cuisine, when Yemeni cuisine alone is more spicy than Turkish in general (I know both cuisines closely -I doubt that many others do here and certainly not Atatwolf) is obviously ludicrous. He is a serial troll often looking for fights against everybody. We don't want to see that here nor the ignorance he often shows as exemplified in this debate.
Lastly I have never claimed that Turkish cuisine did not use spices. It does. Mainly due to the Silk Road trade as you told.
But let us end it here. I hope that you get my point now.
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Alshawi1234 Please educate some of the users here on the Arab cuisine served during the heights of the Islamic civilization and during the Islamic Golden Age when the Turks had yet reached Turkey from Central Asia. Or that served in Al-Andalus. I doubt that those users have a clue (big one) about even one single Arab countries cuisine, for instance Iraqi. Let alone Yemeni etc. So quite funny.