Food at the 'Day3a'

Taking a tour through the villages of Syria (more commonly known in Syria as the “Day3a”), we passed by a group of village women who were curing their own olives. Its this time of the season where all the villagers starting jarring their olives, eggplants, and other farm crops.

Explained by one of our fellow villagers, “the olives are first smashed, washed and put into jars of water. After about four-five days the water is replaced by rock-salt water and olive oil, and then left to become edible olives. The process could take about 3 weeks depending on how you like your olives”. They usually make enough to supply them till the same time next year where they would do this process again.

It’s amazing how these villagers live such a simple life we all would only classify as a temporary holiday from our technological world. Having said that, this is only talking about the village side of Syria. Syria does have its highly contemporary regions, which we will visit later on.

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