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               that the UN gave to Iraq         family understood and           with rice and meat),
               to withdraw from Kuwait.         realized how loyal              mootabak (fish over
               This operation saw the           Kuwaitis were.                  rice), gaboot (dumplings
               formation of an alliance.                                        in meat stew), mahroog
               The alliance army was            Food in Kuwait                  soobua (vegetable
               split into three sections.                                       stew), and emawash
               One part of the army             By Anonymous                    (rice, mung beans,
               was in the Saudi                 Grade 11                        shrimp).
               Arabian Kuwaiti border
               to protect Saudi Arabia          One of the most                 As a Kuwaiti, I feel that
               from any sudden or               important aspects of            the most important dish
               surprise attack from the         human life is food, and         is rice because you can
               Iraqi army. Another              in my opinion, Kuwait is        do a lot of things with it,
               entered Kuwait to fight          the best place to enjoy         and prepare a lot of
               the Iraqi army that was          it. Kuwait has both             dishes with it. I don’t
               in Kuwait. The rest              national and inter-             mean though that we
               entered south Iraq to cut        national dishes. You can        eat only rice. We also
               any supplies that came           find pure, tasty Arabian        have fish. In the old
               from Iraq to the Iraqi           rice packed with                days, like my
               army in Kuwait. The              punches of flavor and           grandfather’s days, they
               Iraqi army in Kuwait was         spices, and you can also        used to go out fishing.
               totally destroyed and on         find the juiciest, tender       Fishing wasn’t a hobby
                            th
               February 26 , 1991               pieces of an American           for them, it was a job
               Kuwait was free when             hamburger soaked in oil,        before oil was
               Saddam ordered his               layered with a grilled          discovered. Until then,
               army to leave.                   tomato, sprinkled with          Kuwait only had fish and
                                                finely chopped garlic,          pearls. So, that’s a little
               The importance of this           plus drizzled with the          about how the history of
               war is that it made the          sweet sourness of               Kuwait has affected food
               Kuwaiti people stand up          ketchup, and the                in the country.
               together on one hand.            soothing mildness of
               When Kuwait was                  mayonnaise. And the             In my opinion, by 2030
               invaded the Kuwaiti              cheese. Oh, don’t let me        Kuwait is going to be
               people said that                 talk about the cheese           one of the biggest tourist
               Saddam invaded                   because it’s a whole            countries just for food.
               Kuwait. They didn’t say          other story. So, you see,
               Saddam came to kill the          Kuwait offers you the
               Shias or came to kill the        opportunity to taste all
               Sunnis and because of            kinds of cultural foods,
               that there is no                 from one side of the
               difference between               world to the other.
               Shias and Sunnis in
               Kuwait because they              One of the most
               stood up for each other.         authentic Kuwaiti dishes
               It was important also            you can find are
               because the Al-Sabah             majboos (dish made
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