Sweets & Desserts

Having crossed the hill, we entered the rich vale of Shechem, or Nablus, clad with olives, full of gardens and orange groves with palm trees and watered by plenteous rills.

H.B. Tristram, A Journal of Travels in Palestine

Nablus owes its particularities to its geography and the developments of its more recent history. Its situation naturally marked it as the centre of an ancient road system and the many springs that fed the wadis blessed the area with groves and rich vegetation.

All central Palestine could be taken in at a glance, and the lesson of geography could not be easily forgotten.

H.B. Tristram, A Journal of Travels in Palestine