Food

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Tabbuleh

Hello all you grade 9 geography students!  This week will be blogging about the food of the UAE.  Food is one of my favorite things, and so it makes sense that I will be blogging about it.  When I started reading and seeing pictures about the food they have there, my mouth started watering.  UAE doesn't really have it's own food, but  the type of food they eat is called "gulf food" Lebanon also eats this "gulf food" and other participants are other Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and Qatar.  Some common foods here that originate from there are hummus (chick pea dip/spread) and Pitta bread (sometimes unleavened).  Some less common ones include Tabbuleh (salad with couscous, tomatoes, onion, parsley etc.), Moutabel (dip mad of aubergine or eggplatn),  Warak enab (stuffed vine leaves) and many others.  Anyway, I hope you now have a little bit of knowledge of gulf cuisine.  See you never again.

Sam

Hummus

Current Issues

Hello fellow Geography class bloggers!  This week I will be talking about some current issues of the UAE.  Most of the issues comprise of natural sources.  For example, acid rain is a big deal there.  It contains high levels of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.  The acid is so powerful that it can destroy freshwater lakes and the fish inside them and kill many plants.  Also, as you might of picked up in past blogs, the oil industry is huge in the UAE.  There have been some small oil spills which have polluted some of the beaches.  If the people of the UAE want to make their country better, they need to be more environementaly aware.  Hope you enjoyed this week's edition of my blog.

Sma