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"Their parents' restaurant, Mediterranean Cruise Cafe, is the family business where Kamal and Ansari grew up immersed in cooking and service—Kamal recalls being raised in that environment after her mother immigrated as a teenager—and Ansari later worked there as general manager; that upbringing, plus summers in Jerusalem with their grandparents, heavily influenced the siblings’ approach to Baba’s and its modern Middle Eastern identity." - Justine Jones