Sahara Middle Eastern Eatery – Albuquerque, New Mexico
History has shown that cultures which thrived and advanced most rapidly are those which settled in arable areas rife with natural resources. The “Cradle of Civilization” where many of the earliest human civilizations evolved is in a seemingly unlikely region of the Middle East in which most of the land is too dry for farming. In this largely desolate region lies a narrow strip of land known as the “Fertile Crescent” because of its fecund soil and life-giving waters. The Fertile Crescent lies in the ancient area stretching in an arc from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates, an area the Greeks of Biblical times called Mesopotamia which means “between the rivers.” This historical region, which includes some of…