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1 abela delicatesse fie food, travel ad livig The art of Perfect grillig Creepy COCKTAILS for kids Bewitched Hallowee chocolates Racig to the Top! Bofire Night Faves Escape to Salalah, Oma

2 SMART SHOPPER CARD MEMBERSHIP December 2010 Issue 1 i this [hauted] issue... ADDED-VALUE shoppig with the Smart Shopper Card Apply today ad start earig poits!... a quick word 5 a message from Abela Perfect your grillig techique 7 become a grill master this witer Creepy cofectioery from Cadbury 12 watch out for these scary chocolates Hallowee cocktails for kids 10 easy to make, tasty driks for Hallowee Abela s basketball stars 17 the risig stars of the court New i-store 21 a fatastic ew lie up for you to ejoy Escape to we visit sleepy Salalah i souther Oma Cogratulatios! 38 joi us i cogratulatig our most valuable employees Competitios 40 eter to wi some fatastic prizes! recommed 42 take a look at these recommeded websites ABELA SUPERMARKETS Pick up your istat applicatio to start earig poits! It s the smarter way to shop ad save. shopper* Desiged ad produced for Abela Supermarkets by Phishface Publishig Ltd. - For ad equiries please call: Writte material ad imagery cotaied i this magazie are copyrighted ad the sole property of Abela Supermarkets, Phishface Publishig Ltd. or PHISHFOTOZ ad may ot be reproduced as a whole or i part without express writte permissio from the publisher. Abela Supermarkets

3 ... a quick word Dear readers, Welcome back to, delicatesse, our free i-store magazie to complemet your lifestyle, itroduce ew products, ad hopefully etertai. Summer is fially o the wae ad we look forward to providig everythig you eed for the comig Hallowee ad outdoors seaso. This moth why ot make some home made treats for Bofire Night or easy costumes for the kids. Take time out to travel with us to Salalah i souther Oma to experiece the cool ad uique Khareef summer mosoos. You ll also fid so may ew ad excitig products that have just hit the shelves so make sure to check them out ad live up those family meals. Do t forget to use your Smart Shopper Card for all your shoppig. Collect poits every time you shop ad redeem them for shoppig vouchers to sped i-store. It s simple: shop, ear poits, redeem shoppig rewards! Pick up your istat applicatio pack or ask oe of our staff for more iformatio. We would like to hear what you thik of delicatesse magazie, so please drop a to commets@abeladelicatesse.com ad let us kow. Wishig you a bewitched Hallowee. Low Sodium Sicerely yours David Derrick Retail Geeral Maager Abela Supermarkets 5

4 the art of grillig o the BBQ Create the optimum cookig coals, lip-smackig meat rubs ad perfect your grillig techique - it s easy whe you kow how! 7

5 Oe of the tools you eed for idirect grillig is a drip pa. create distictive crosshatch grill marks. Sear the steak util This ca be a heavy cast iro pa or a disposable alumium beads of blood appear o the surface, 1-2 mis for a steak tray. This sits uder the cookig grate where you pla o 1 / 2 ich thick, 3-5 mis for oe 1 ich thick, ad 6-9 mis doig the cookig. If you have a oe burer grill the the for a thickess of 1 1 / 2 to 2 iches. Tur the steaks usig Grillig to perfectio drip pa should go i the middle with the food directly over it. The drip pa diverts the risig heat ad creates the space you eed for idirect grillig. The drip pa also catches all togs or a spatula. Never stab them with a fork or the juices will escape. Cotiue cookig the steaks o the other side, rotatig after 2 mis. To test for doeess, press the top with 8 say goodbye to cremated ribs ad charred chicke! It s that time of year agai ad as we are all chompig at or the style of food you are cookig tha with the thickess the bit to get outdoors, it might be worth takig the time ad volume of what you are grillig. Kowig which method to perfect your BBQ techique, guarateeig succulet ad to use ad how best to do it is a very importat part of beig teder meat (ad lots of admirig looks from frieds!) a grillmaster. Creatig the perfect coals Direct Grillig is the most basic ad simple way to cook. The secret to perfect, eve coals is a simple chimey starter. Foods are cooked, or grilled, directly over the heat. Direct This clever gadget cosists of a metal cylider with a charcoal exposure to heat cooks the food - simple. I this day ad grate mouted iside. It also elimiates the eed for liquid fire age we have cookig devices with lids. It is this lid that starter fuel that ca give food a strage taste. Ulit charcoal or determies whether the food is grilled or baked. By closig wood is placed ito the top of the cylider ad ewspaper is the lid you hold i the heat ad allow foods to be cooked placed ito the bottom, uder the grate. Whe the ewspaper all over ad reduce cookig time. Ope the lid ad the is lit, it burs ad lights the charcoal above. The chimey risig heat will cook the bottom of the food. The foods you effect causes the charcoal to light from the bottom all the cook with direct heat are the traditioal grillig fare: steaks, way up to the top creatig perfectly eve cookig coals. Just burgers, fish fillets, etc. Aythig that is less tha 2 iches dump these ito your BBQ pit ad off you go. i thickess should be cooked by direct grillig. These are thigs that geerally cook quickly ad beefit from the fast If you prefer grillig with logs, use dry, well-cured woods oly. cookig of a hot grill. Always use hardwoods, such as alder, maple, peca, locust, Rule of thumb: Lid dow. The oly reaso to grill with the lid oak, hickory, apple, cherry, or mesquite. Avoid resious up is for items that eed a lot of bastig, or cook so quickly softwoods like pie ad fir as they produce too much soot that havig the lid dow icreases the risk of over cookig. ad upleasat, dagerous residues. Also keep i mid that Idirect Grillig is more similar to bakig. Ay large food wood ca produce a hotter fire (ad a lot more creosote) item or cuts of meat of more tha 2 iches thick should be tha charcoal, so always keep the grill ucovered. As always, grilled idirectly. Cookig oly requires that you be able to ever desert your post. eclose the food i some way. You also use this method for Gas vs charcoal grillig with a rotisserie. To be hoest, oce you have perfected the techique This method requires that the fire by built off to the side for grillig food, you ca achieve very similar results with of where the cookig will take place. If you are usig gas, either type of grill. Uderstad the basic cookig ad heat the use oly the outside burers, placig the food over the pricipals, ad your gas barbecue will produce succulet, cetral oes that are ot i use. Covectio ad radiat heat meats just as well as a charcoal oe. will the cook the food. Sice the food is ot beig exposed to direct heat from the burers it will cook more evely ad Direct or idirect grillig? be less likely to bur o the exposed side. Of course this also There are two ways to grill: directly or idirectly. These meas that it will cook more slowly. methods have less to do with the type of grill you are usig Pick up a grill ad some BBQ meats from Abela this weeked! the drippigs from the food ad helps keep your grill clea. It s Smoki There is othig quite like the aromatic flavour of wood smoke to take grilled or barbecued food from the ordiary to the ext level. True smokig is a idirect method of cookig over low temperatures (typically 107 to 120 C). The source of the smoke ca be wood chips, chuks, pellets, braches, trimmigs, or logs. The most popular smokig woods are cherry, apple, oak, hickory ad mesquite. While smokig is immietly doable o a charcoal grill, gas grills are geerally too well-vetilated to be effective with this cookig method - but ca have acceptable results usig foil ad soaked chips at each side. To smoke o a charcoal grill, set it up for idirect grillig with a moud of coals o opposite sides of the grill. Throw just a hadful of wood chips or chuks (soak i water for a hour first) directly o the coals, put the food to be smoked i the middle, close the lid, ad adjust the vets. More oxyge more heat, less oxyge less heat. Smoke should come out of the vets almost immediately. For large cuts of meat, you may have to add more wood chips or chuks after the first hour ad cotiue for the duratio of the cookig time. So what ca you grill? Your imagiatio is your oly restrictio to variety. Get the techique uder your belt ad let your creativity flow. But let s start with a basic BBQ staple: STEAK Start with a three-tiered fire: oe part screamig hot, oe part medium-high, oe part ulit for a safety zoe where you ca move the steaks i case of flare-ups. Choose the right steak: The T-boe ad Porterhouse give you two steaks i oe - a meaty New York strip ad a teder filet migo. Seaso right before direct grillig with coarse sea salt ad freshly groud or cracked black peppercors. (Why coarse salt? It dissolves slowly, so a few cruchy salt crystals remai.) Before you begi, a quick wire brush of the grill ad a light oilig of the iros with a folded paper towel betwee your togs. Place the steaks (room temperature) o the grate. After 2 mis, rotate each steak either 45 or 90 degrees; to your idex figer: A rare steak will be softly yieldig; medium will be firmer; well-doe will be quite firm. Alteratively, use a istat-read meat thermometer iserted through the side. For medium-rare, cook to 60 C, 65 C for medium. Avoid cuttig ito a steak to gauge doeess. Top with a piece of herb-ifused butter or drizzle with extra-virgi olive oil. Perfect every time. ultimate rub There are two types of meat rub to boost the flavour of barbecue or grilled foods. Wet rub: Sometimes called spice pastes, are similar to mariades, but geerally thicker. Make wet rubs immediately before slatherig them o the food to be grilled as may wet rubs cotai teder herbs that deteriorate after a few hours. DRY RUB: A mixture of dry spices that are literally rubbed ito foods before grillig. They ca be made ahead of time ad stored for several moths (away from heat ad light) i covered cotaiers or resealable plastic bags Oe very versatile dry rub is the Four-Four rub, made by mixig equal parts coarse salt, black pepper, paprika, ad brow sugar. Ad do t be afraid to experimet with various combiatios to create your ow uique rubs. You ca use a rub i two ways. Apply it right before grillig ad it serves as a seasoig or apply it several hours (or eve a day ahead) to cure as well as seaso the meat. 9

6 spooky creepy cocktails for kidssips Thirst quechig ad refreshig, these creepy cocktails will keep your ghouls, vampires ad witches hydrated this Hallowee Skull puch Spiced Purée: [1 medium-sized pumpki (toast seeds for garish, 1 litre freshly squeezed orage juice, 2 tsp groud allspice, 2 Tbsp clear hoey] Cocktail: [½ litre spiced pumpki purée, ½ litre pressed pieapple juice, 3 Tbsp greadie syrup, crushed ice, 1 litre chilled lemoade, Hallowee jellies] Brig a small amout of water to a simmer i a pa. Susped a steamig basket above the water (do ot allow basket to touch water). Add chopped pumpki, steam for mis, or util teder. Set aside to cool. Whe the pumpki has cooled, trasfer it to food processor. Add orage juice, allspice ad hoey ad bled util smooth. For the cocktail, mix together pumpki purée, pieapple juice, greadie ad crushed ice util well combied. Chill for at least oe hour. Pour the mixture ito a large bowl. Top up with lemoade. Mix well. Ladle ito cups ad garish with Hallowee jellies. Eyeball Ice Cubes [grapes, raisi, water, ice-cube tray] Half-fill a ice cube tray with water. Add a halved grape to each sectio ad press a raisi ito the cetre to make a eyeball, the freeze. Pop them i ay of your cocktails to chill your guests to the boe! Creepy Hollow [freshly squeezed kiwi juice, raspberry syrup, lemoade] I a bleder, whizz up the apple juice, gree food colourig ad lemoade. Pour i the mix ad drip raspberry syrup o the rim of the glass so that it rus dow the sides. Doe! STINKY SWAMP JUICE [½ cup small tapioca pearls, food colourig, 4 Tbsp sugar, 8 gummy fish, 8 gummy worms, sparklig water, lemoade] Brig 6 cups of water to a boil ad add the tapioca pearls. Reduce the heat slightly ad boil the pearls, stirrig occasioally, for 20 to 25 miutes. Divide the pearls, with the remaiig water, betwee two bowls. Add 4 drops of food colourig (we used 3 drops of yellow ad 1 drop of gree i oe bowl, ad 4 drops of blue i the other) ad 2 tablespoos of sugar to each bowl. Stir the mixtures, the allow them to sit ucovered for 20 to 25 miutes. Drai ad rise the pearls with cold water. Fially, spoo 2 Tbsp of pearls ito each glass ad drop i a gummy fish. Fill the glasses with sparklig water, the add a splash of lemoade. Place a gummy worm aroud a spoo. Grab everythig you eed to make these delicious cocktails for kids from Abela! 10 11

7 chocolates With Hallowee just aroud the corer its time to brig out the cobwebs ad get your scare o for hallowee bewitched NEW from Cadbury Roll up roll up, Marvellous Creatios are i tow! Cadbury has trasformed regular Dairy Milk ito marvellous creatios! Radomly shaped ad textured chuks hide Jelly Poppig Cady Shells ad all sorts of delicious goodies like cruchy almod caramel, roasted caramelised hazeluts, biscuit ad creamy caramel. YUM! Roll up, roll up ad get yours before they re all goe! Cadbury are helpig you celebrate the bewitchig ight of Hallowee with some ghoulish chocolate treats! The muchloved Creme Egg has bee trasformed to ooze a slimy gree cetre. Mad scietists have added a pich of gree goo, a dash of boos ad a hadful of screamig bashees ad trasformed the classic Creme Egg ito a ew gooey gree egg - the Cadbury Screme Egg. Cadbury Dead Heads make a great spooky chocolate gift for Hallowee with their chocolate heads filled with a blood red caramel cetre. Cruchy Spiders will be crawlig alog your table with their milk chocolate bodies ad gree cruchy isides ad the Spooky Trick or Treatsize Bucket, cotais 45 of your favourite chocolates i treatsize bars - Cruchie, Curly Wurly, Fudge ad Chomp - perfect for trick or treaters

8 Bofire Night Faves comfort food that goes dow a treat every time Perfect Baked Potatoes Not as easy as it souds. The perfect baked potato. Crispy o the outside, pillowy o the iside, easy to make. Igrediets [Russet potatoes, olive oil, coarse salt] Start with a ice, firm Russet potato (or Idaho) with very few blemishes or eyes. Try to select potatoes that are similar i size for eve cookig. Scrub well with water ad a vegetable brush or pa scrub to clea the ski. Let dry. Rub with olive oil ad salt. Prick with a fork three or four times ad place directly o the ove rack. Bake at 200 C for about 50 mis. Check at about 40 mis by isertig a fork ito the potato (they re doe if the fork goes i easily). Remove from the ove ad slice dow the middle. Squeeze sides toward the cetre. This fluffs the isides ad keeps moisture from gettig trapped iside the ski. That s it! Serve warm with pretty much whatever you wat. Warm butterscotch dippers A simple twist o toffee apples - ad just perfect to warm up Bofire Night. Igrediets [50g usalted butter, 175g light muscovado sugar, 284ml carto double cream, 3 red-skied apples, each cored ad cut ito 6 wedges, 3 pears, each cored ad cut ito 6 wedges, juice ½ lemo, geerous pich ciamo 6 woode skewers soaked i cold water for at least 30 mis] Melt the butter i a pa ad add 100g of the muscovado sugar. Stir util dissolved, the leave to bubble for 30 secs. Pour i the cream, brig to the boil ad whisk util smooth. Set aside util warm. Meawhile, heat the grill to high. Toss the apple segmets i lemo juice, remaiig sugar ad ciamo. Thread oto the skewers ad arrage i oe layer o a bakig tray. Grill for 5 mis, turig oce whe golde. Serve with the warm butterscotch sauce. Dip i everyoe! Chocolate Fruit Fodue A break from traditio but why ot? Igrediets [110g sugar, 110ml water, 400g plai chocolate, broke i pieces, 2 Tbsp golde syrup, selectio of fruits such as orage, baaa, grapes, dates or pieapple] Heat the sugar ad water i a saucepa util the sugar melts ad the mixture resembles a syrup. Melt the chocolate i a heatproof bowl set over a pa of simmerig water. (Do t allow the base of the bowl touch the water.) Stir i the golde syrup ad eough sugar syrup to form a smooth sauce. (Cautio: the chocolate mixture will be very hot, allow to cool a little before servig.) Serve with the platter of fruit. Classic Hot Dogs Hot dogs are a hassle-free food guarateed to please kids ad adults alike. Igrediets [Pork, beef or turkey sausages, oios, fresh hot dog bus] The differece betwee a good hot dog ad a great hot dog has to be the oios - these caot be hurried. Start by slicig the oios i half ad the legthways to create strads. Heat some vegetable oil i a pa ad add the oios. Fry getly for about 10 mis util traslucet ad the add a teaspoo of sugar. Keep over a getle flame for a further 10 mis or util the sugar is completely dissolved. Cover o the lowest heat settig ad forget about them for at least 30 mis. After 30 mis stir ad check for a good caramelised look. They should be glisteig, golde ad soft i texture - ready for the ext step. Follow the directios o your ca/ jar of sausage, or if they are barbecued, pop them ito your bu ad top with your oio cococtio. A geerous squirt of mustard, ketchup or mayo to fiish will have them comig back for more! 14 Pick up your favourite seasoal treats or cookig igrediets from Abela! 15

9 Racig to the top Abela s Abu Dhabi Racers are aimig for the top spot As part of the Compay s huma developmet ad staff s welfare, the wome basketball team was created ad it is called Abela Racers wome s basketball team. The team compete with 7 other compay sposored teams ad at the peak of the touramet the team tured out to be the fialist for the champioship, but after the best of three games, the team wo as the 1st ruer up ad proud for the performace they did. 17

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11 New i store... take a look at some ew ad excitig additios to our rage Oomf - Skiy Oats Istat Diet Porridge for Weight-Loss Support. Just add hot water! Specifically formulated with the calorie coscious i mid. Each pot is less tha 200kcal but has bee tailored to keep you feelig fuller for loger, helpig to reduce your cravigs through-out the day. A uique fat-burig bled of L-Caritie, Gree Tea Extract ad Guaraa has bee added to pack a puch i helpig you to achieve your weight loss goals. Also, ulike other products i the market, Skiy Oats is aturally sweeteed with Xylitol (Birch Tree Extract) ad is free from ay added sugar or artificial sweeteers, makig them the perfect breakfast, meal or sack. Available i: Origial, Golde Syrup ad Berry Blast 21

12 Nature s Path - Gorilla Much Cor Puffs You wo t have to lower your expectatios with this glute-free, wheat-free breakfast. Nature s Path adds a pich of this, a dash of that, but ever aythig artificial ad all the orgaic igrediets are grow without sythetic herbicides, pesticides, ad asty chemicals. This is a sacrifice-free way for your kids to ejoy a healthy ad tasty breakfast. (They re cruchy!) Allos Amarath Corflakes Amarath, the grai of the Icas, ad the grai for these corflakes is grow to strict orgaic stadards i high-lyig areas set withi uique atural ladscapes. Just add a splash of cold milk ad cruch your way to health! (Aciet goodess) DS Corflakes Glute ad wheat free golde flakes of toasted cor, fortified with vitamis. Suitable for people diagosed with coeliac disease, those who are sufferig from a glute ad wheat allergy or itolerace. A perfect breakfast to start your day. (Glute ad wheat free goodess) Natural Way bars Ejoy a succulet bar of uts, dates, sesame, apricot, cocout - the list goes o! Satisfy your huger with a healthy bar packed with 100% atural, glute free, quality igrediets. (Packed with eergy too!) Available i: fruits Delight, Nuts Delight, Apricot Delight, Cocodate, Date Delight ad Caramelized Sesame Nabisco Nutter Butter Bites Nutter Butter Bites are big bag butter bites made with real peaut butter from Platers peauts. Perfect for aytime, aywhere sack. (The right sack i the right pack) Available i: Saucy BBQ, Beef, Spicy, Pickled Oio Cheese & Oio, Flami Hot abisco Mii Chips Ahoy! If you like chocolate chip cookies, you ll love these little gems. Pop them oe bit at a time with your tea, coffee or a big slug of fresh milk! (Yum!) Grees Golde Syrup Pacakes A mouth waterig pacake mix with a delicious golde momet. You ll be treatig your frieds ad family to delicious pacakes i o time. All Gree s products are made with atural igrediets ad o artificial colourigs. (Easy peasy pacakes!) Nabisco oreo Thi Crisps A differet kid of Oreo. No cream cetre, but these little wafer thi chocolate biscuits are baked ad sprikled with sugar ad will have you hooked i o time! Same delicious chocolatey Oreo taste ad at oly 100 calories per packet, you ca sack without the guilt! No high fructose cor syrup, o saturated fat ad cholesterol free. (Guilt-free sackig) 22 23

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14 escape to salalah words ad pictures Louise Adamso oma ragig agry seas ad summer mosoos Logig for cooler climes ad havig pledged to oe day, escape to Salalah for the weeked - 17 years later I fially booked the short flight over the border to Oma. I looked forward to lush gree hills ad cool rai, a world away from the scorchig heat of the UAE. Salalah is the secod largest city i the Sultaate of Oma, Salalah is a colourful, subtropical city that owes much of its ad the largest city i the Dhofar Provece, however, as character to Oma s former territories i East Africa, ad the fully-loaded aircraft desceded, a blaket of khareefgeerated cloud blocked my view of it. Every ich of it. Totally. of baaas ad papayas offer a flavour of Zazibar i the year-roud its cocout-friged beaches ad platatios Thakfully, it cleared eough for the pilot to see the 20 heart of the Arabia desert - but from mid-jue to midmetres above groud before we hit it - or so it seemed - September you will be costatly wet thaks to the uique ad as our cheery taxi driver lowered the widows to allow khareef mosoo. Ufortuately, the deluge I was expectig the cool air to flow through the rickety old taxi, I suddely tured to be a ureletig drizzle, like oe of those mist realised why people escape the suffocatig heat of the rest machies that fail to cool ad just get you soaked to the of Arabia ad flock to Salalah. ski istead. The lush gree hills tured out to be mist As darkess fell we were fially dropped at the Hilto dreched soggy expases of brow dirt, ot too dissimilar Salalah ad I looked forward to wakig up to the promise to those of the UAE. At least the su was t roastig me of lush gree hills, ad stragely, a good old dowpour. alive ad it was most defiitely cooler - if a little damp

15 The pristie beach at Hilto Salalah Image courtesy Hilto Salalah Image courtesy Hilto Salalah Give that your iitial impressio of the Hilto of iterests are Nabi Ayoubs tomb ad bi Ali s Salalah s surroudig eviromet might ot be tomb, the aciet city Al Balid, the lost city of what you expect - the shippig port ad a cocrete Ubar, the museum, Mirbat, craftsme souq ad factory - oce iside the grouds they have little the ati-gravity road. effect o your stay as you are surrouded by vibrat flora ad lush palm groves with a beach frot o the shores of the Idia Ocea. But where was the gree lushess I had bee promised? Where was the water? It seemed this year the khareef was a little late arrivig ad all The property remais a firm favourite for busiess there was to see through the drizzly mist was... travellers ad leisure-seekers alike ad with well, ot much really. So, it was off to fid Oma s Salalah Iteratioal Airport just a 15 mi drive other famous attribute - frakicese. Image courtesy Hilto Salalah 28 away, you are ot too far from aythig. As with may thigs i Salalah, the 14 year old hotel has a lived-i feelig, which is ot a bad thig, just do t expect that brad ew feelig. The staff more tha make up for ay roughess aroud the edges, with bright cheery smiles ad a geuie warm-hearted greetig from every level of hotel employee i typical Omai style. Of the diig optios available, the Sea-Breeze Bar for me was a wier - ope-sided with a Robiso Crusoe feel, it is situated smack bag ext to the rollig waves lappig oto the pristie beach with the bar sack ad cocktail meus providig eough variatio for a lazy afteroo chillig by the pool. Quait ad Sleepy Salalah The history of Salalah ca be dated as far back as the Quee of Sheba who reportedly travelled to the regio to obtai supplies of frakicese - a plat which grows oly i souther Oma, Somalia ad Idia. Archaeologists have ucovered remais of a great mosque, tools, pottery, weapos ad jewellery datig back to 3000BC. Some places THE INCENSE TRAIL Traditioally the capital of Dhofar, Salalah reached the peak of prosperity i the 13th cetury thaks to the icese trade ad is kow as the perfume capital of Arabia due to the strads of frakicese trees liig wadi ad moutai passes. Oma Frakicese, Boswellia Sacra, is oe of the earth s greatest treasures ad a precious substace revered through the ages. I the aciet world it was valued more tha gold ad i our time it is a rare ad uique gift. The scet is also historically coected with healig ad spirituality i almost every culture ad religio. For the ultimate Frakicese experiece, a short stroll through the old Al Hafah souq will evelope you i its puget aroma. Everywhere you tur you will be greeted with hea-decorated Omai ladies sittig ad sortig the fiest from the lower grade uggets of this perfumed treasure. You will stroll through clouds of burig frakicese obscurig your view through arrow alleyways ad emerge with its perfume ligerig o your clothes. Frakicese is ot just a tourist attractio or is 29

16 Bledig uique oils ad esseces for a customer i the souq Frakicese trees alog the coastlie, typically Omai headwear The blowholes at Mugsayl, a souq stall ready to mix a custom made perfume 30 31

17 Chilled youg cocouts make a healthy ad refreshig treat it just a perfume, it really is a huge part of Omai culture ad key to overall good health. 32 Explore further afield ad aroud Al Hafah souq you will fid widig laes with extesive cocout ad baaa cultivatio. Log ago, the coir from the thick husk of the fruit of the local tall variety was used to stitch the plakig of the traditioal sew boat of the Wester Idia Ocea. Today, the immature fruits are mostly sold as teder cocout for drikig - do t miss the fruit ad vegetable stalls where a chilled refreshig youg fruit ca be bought for a few cois - the top freshly hacked off with a machete ad haded over with a straw stickig out of the top. Of course, your stroll would ot be complete without samplig the traditioal Omai sweet halwa. Sold by the bucket-load o every corer of the old tow. Halwa is cosidered a symbol of Omai hospitality ad is traditioally served with Omai kahwa (coffee). It is brow, sticky ad icredibly sweet, ad judgig by the huge umber of shops dedicated to sellig this sigle product, it s probably fair to say it is satisfyig a atioal sugar addictio rather tha just providig it for special occasios such as weddig celebratios, or durig Ramada ad Eid feasts. The recipe is subject to much debate as every Omai has their ow persoal favourite, with igrediets ad proportios varyig betwee makers ad from differet locales of productio. I fact, halwa makers are fiercely protective over their secret recipes however, the basic recipe calls for eggs, sugar, corflour ad fat, combied to produce a gelatious sweet, which is the flavoured with spices such as cardamom ad saffro. Rosewater from the Jebel Akdhar regio is sometimes used to ifuse the sweet with a delicate floral fragrace. The Tree of Life But, back to the frakicese. Our taxi driver for the day has a locatio i mid to give us a brief itroductio to the stuff. I his falterig Eglish ad our pretty dire Arabic we figure out that we are to fid some frakicese trees just past the Mugsayl blowholes - which apparetly are best experieced at this time of year. A worthwhile detour if just to stad a while ad ejoy watchig ususpectig people stad directly o top of metal grates with gallos of agry seawater beeath, radomly gushig vertically upwards at a thousad miles a hour threateig to shoot them ito aother galaxy. Followig the uexpected hilarity at the blowholes, we move o, drivig a short way to stop at the side of the road. Followig our driver s gaze up the loomig moutaiside above we catch 33

18 The blowholes created by the wild seas of the khareef the tree of life oozes puget frakicese resi sight of some scraggy old trees that are surely log dead but as he skips out of the car excitedly, we follow over the rocks as he scrambles towards oe of the sad-lookig specimes. Still ubelievig, we are oly coviced whe he slashes the truk with a sharp kife ad advises we wait a while. Whe the sap slowly begis to ooze, I rub the sticky gum betwee my figers - the umistakable aroma of frakicese risig upwards. 34 UNIQUE PROPERTIES Because of its o-perishability, its resistace to bacteria ad because it is a evergree tree that ca live for at least 100 years, frakicese is a symbol of immortality. It seems that the power ad beauty of frakicese is a reflectio of its itese teacity for life. After woudig the truk usig a traditioal chisel-like tool, the milky white resi globules (luba) leech out of the hole, formig pearls. The first sap is ot collected, ad is thought to clease the wood of impurities. Oce this dries, the hole is elarged ad deepeed, after which sap comes out, dries, ad is collected about two weeks later whe it is trasparet. This tappig process is repeated several times at several poits throughout the year, depedig upo the regio. The fresh gum ca be chewed to stregthe the teeth ad gums, to stimulate digestio ad to combat halitosis. The smoke from burig the gum is cosidered to have powerful curative ad protective properties. Frakicese was ad still is very far from beig just a lovely fragrace with its healig powers ragig from the treatmet of psychological coditios such as depressio ad claustrophobia to physical oes such as eczema ad abscesses. I Oma, where the fiest frakicese i the world origiates, it is cosidered a gift of God. The trees are ot itetioally plated or watered, they are urtured oly by ature. The people whose lad cotais a frakicese tree are cosidered to be blessed. Boswellia sacra comes from the Dhofar regio of souther Oma Coverig about 100,000 square kilometres, the Dhofar regio borders Yeme to the west ad Saudi Arabia to the orth. The trees do ot like moisture ad thrive i barre areas cooled by sea wids. The aciet twisted trees with crikly leaves sprig uexpectedly to life every September with a explosio of white star flowers. 35

19 Bachelors make the most of their weeked i ew Salalah The quality, scet ad body ca be idetified by frakicese cooisseurs ad varies greatly by locatio, each seaso ad year. The best, ajd, comes from the hills of the Bait Kathir tribe. The lower quality, shazri, from the Qara moutais ad the least valued, sha abi, is foud o the coastal plais. If you ask the experts most will tell you that hougary is the fiest. Primarily the larger selected white ad lemo-white coloured frakicese resis. Superior hougary frakicese resis produce beautiful light, bright, citrus aromas with slight uderlyig woody ad balsamic toes. Ufortuately, Boswellia trees are i declie, due i part to over-tappig of trees to meet icreased demad, as well as climate chage. Oe study estimated the umber of Boswellia trees could declie by 90 percet i the ext 50 years. Back ito tow it was time to explore the ew Salalah - much less charmig but filled with life oetheless. Bachelors ejoyig their weekeds playig stick ad ball i empty carparks, relaxig by the sea or strollig with frieds. It seems to me though that as ew Salalah prospers, old Salalah has bee left to die by the sea - derelict buildigs i desperate disrepair, oce full of life, ruis ow stadig empty slowly beig devoured by the ureletig salty air. Life is still simple here i both ew ad old parts of tow but immiet chage is clearly o the horizo. Who would t wat the ewly opeed malls housig braded stores ad fast food, but at what cost? The lust for moder coveieces should t mea abadoig the roots of the tow, Al Hafah beach frot deserves to be regeerated ad preserved. A extreme makeover could brig it back to what I ca oly imagie was its former glory - itricately carved woode etrace ways, sculpted balustrades ad a view to die for. It would be well worth the effort. old Salalah is i eed of a serious makeover to brig it back to its former glory 36 37

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