Filo

Filo came to us from Persia by way of the Arab caravans that traded along the Silk Road and through most of the countries of the Middle East and Greece. A form of it, if not the same thing, existed in ancient Rome. A modem form of it is still prepared in the Maghreb, at least in Algeria.

Try at least once in your life to prepare filo yourself. Do not be discouraged if you cannot make it as thin as the sheets you buy in commercial packages; your equipment, which is your hands and you