Here’s an Iraqi woman posting basic recipes. Scroll down to the post about sumac. Hilarious…if it weren’t for the thought that there really is some paranoid idiot out there who thinks that and will write a crazy email about it without doing any real research. Sigh.

Sumac is delicious, for the record, and you can get it at any Middle Eastern grocery. Very tangy, and a beautiful color. Good on green salads, and good for adding tang to things when you don’t have fresh lemon, say.