25 May: Star Wars opens in cinemas, and a bowl of Lablabi
Star Wars opened in US cinemas on 25 May 1977, and Luke Skywalker's desert planet Tatooine was filmed in southern Tunisia. Tunisia's lablabi, a garlicky chickpea soup, is the real taste of that galaxy far, far away.
Soup of the day
Lablabi
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Lablabi is a robust Tunisian chickpea soup eaten from morning to night in simple street eateries. Stale bread is torn into a bowl, and chickpeas in a garlicky broth seasoned with cumin are ladled over it.
Read about Lablabi and get the recipe →What happened
Star Wars opens in US cinemas. Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine was filmed in southern Tunisia.
Why this soup
Tatooine was filmed in Tunisia and named after the town of Tataouine.
Sources
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