Aram Bohjalian
The Pink House, Assyrian Quarter, Ourfa, Easter 1910
Khatoun
The onion is surely King amongst vegetables. The luminous skin wrapped around the fleshy inner layers comes in many shapes and colours. There’s the red onion, sharp and nutty and excellent in salads. The yellow – your general kitchen helper that makes you cry the most. The fist-size onion you can crunch into like an apple, or silverskins so small they look like God’s pearls dancing in a pickling jar with coriander seed. Some onions come rainbow hued, the bulb bursting with purple, the tapered ends fading to a milky green, while others shine pure white, the delicate, papery leaves fluttering to the floor like unwritten letters. Ferida’s favourite is, of course, the simple brown; a misnomer as its golden skin glow
