The cookbooks range from Mesopotamian times to medieval Muslim empires to a current Syrian cookbook, taking viewers back to the dining tables of pre-Islamic peoples to today's society in Damascus, Syria.
Different paintings of Muslims during the Islamic empires eating and/or cooking foods, including Sultans of Delhi, India during the Malwa Sultanate in 1392–1562.
The coffee house opened in 1945 where the mailroom is today. Around this time, Starbucks was a popular place to be and the coffee house tried to imitate that atmosphere. This was a small, intimate space that also feature live music performances, as…