The history of ice cream is long and sweet. Throughout ancient history, civilizations from Egypt to Pompei, from Tang Dynasty China to the Incan Empire all managed to realize that ice (most often ...

ANA UHIBB, ANTA TUHIBB, nahnu jami’aan nuhibb al-booza! Isn’t that what the kids say these days? It should be. (The phrase is Arabic for I scream, you scream, we all scream for booza!) Booza is a ...

Republic of Booza, a new Williamsburg ice-cream joint, is taking the frozen treat back to its roots. Booza, a type of ice cream that originated in the eastern part of the Mediterranean more than 500 ...

If you scream for ice cream, it's perhaps because you haven't tried booza. The frozen treat, also known as stretchy ice cream, originated in Syria and is commonly served in Palestine, Israel and ...

As he travelled through the Middle East last year, Jilbert El-Zmetr, 30, spent much of his time eating delicacies such as nougats, pistachio treats and sesame-based biscuits. But it was the region's ...

Republic of Booza's stretchy Middle Eastern ice cream is no longer just in Williamsburg. Republic of Booza took Brooklyn by storm when it opened in 2018. Now, a spring/summer roster of experimental ...

Middle Eastern booza (and its Turkish counterpart dondurma) is the showboat of the ice cream world. It has the flexibility of Gumby, a dessert you can stretch, bend, and do acrobatic things with.

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