Welcome back to Salt, Smoke and Grandmothers, I am Aina Rosli. This episode begins with a sound: a stone mortar on a Sunday morning in a village in the Chouf mountains of Lebanon. Five families have made kibbeh together on the same stretch of street for longer than anyone can date, and they still do, every week, with grandchildren in Dearborn and Sydney watching on a phone propped against a bowl. I spent two Sundays there, pounding when I was allowed to, listening when I was not. We get into why kibbeh has to be made by a crowd, who owns the mortar and what that means, and a disagreement about bulgur that has lasted thirty years and shows no sign of ending. It is loud, it is generous, and nobody leaves hungry. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.