Saveur Magazine
What It’s Like to Break Bread in the Desert
December 27, 2018
2019 NATJA Gold Award: Family Travel and Bronze medalist in Culinary Tourism in the 2018-19 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, sponsored by the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation. Judges said, “This is a sweet, touching and informative essay that shows how food is the center of a community. Leslie Oh and her children learn from a 200-year-old Jordanian bread recipe called shrak. They knead it, bake it, eat it, and learn more about the nomadic desert culture of a Bedouin family they visit than they could have possibly learned in any other way. Via Oh’s writing, readers can see the experience in her daughter’s eyes.”
