Syrian cooking — particularly the cuisine of Aleppo, historically one of the world's great culinary cities — represents a specific synthesis of the spice trade routes with a sophisticated urban cooking tradition. Aleppo sat at the intersection of the Silk Road (connecting China and Central Asia to the Mediterranean) and the incense road (connecting Arabia to the north) — its market contained spices from every direction, and its cooking reflected this abundance. The Aleppo pepper (also called halaby pepper — pul biber in Turkish) is the specific Aleppan contribution to world cooking.
The defining techniques and ingredients of Syrian cooking.
LEVANTINE CULINARY TRADITION — DEEP EXTRACTION