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They’re laughing in the face of famine at Cedars Mediterranean Kitchen
Sudki Abdullah wanted to name his restaurant “Olive Mount,” but his Jewish friends talked him out of it. That was 32 years ago, when Sudki, a Palestinian grocer who’d started frying falafel in the unventilated storeroom of Hyde Park’s Harper Foods, …