As we inch towards the final quarter of the Foodie Reads 2016 Challenge , I picked up a copy of The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber.* I don't know if someone recommended it to me, if I saw it on someone else's reading list or blog, or if I just found it. I dove into the book and carried in my purse to devour pages in any spare moment that I had. But my interest flagged about two-thirds of the way through and I struggled to finish it. Still, I finally flipped that last page this morning and am glad that I did. She did manage to draw me back in at the end. On the Page... This is a memoir about growing up with a foot in each of her parent's cultures. Her mom is American; her dad is from a Bedouin tribe in Jordan. As a kid, the Abu-Jabers moved between the two countries; and, as an adult, Diana has done the same. There are recipes peppered throughout the book that tie in to the memory she just retold such as Poetic Baklava - for when you need to...