Ahmad Altaouil will recreate his exotic pizzas at the food festival!
Ahmad Altaouil was a successful chef in Syria before his family was uprooted by the civil war four years ago. Then the war happened and the family had to pack up everything and run to Jordan. This meant closing up the restaurant he had spent years working hard at. One of the things that the family packed from Syria was the beloved stove Altaouil used to make his famous pizzas on.
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Now as a Syrian refugee recently resettled in Canada, Altaouil is looking to make a comeback. The 31-year-old chef is set to be one of 11 vendors at the first Fairbairn Food Festival in Wakefield on Saturday. Altaouil plans to whip up warm, savoury Syrian pizzas — a flatbread delight cooked to order in a wood-fired dome oven, stuffed with an assortment of sauces, meat and veggies — just as he did back in Syria.