On cooking a chicken in an otherwise austere kitchen. Translations from any language, into English, are welcome. “Pearls on a Branch” is from the collection Pearls on a Branch: Oral Tales, ed. Etel Adnan (Beirut, 1925). Here, a woman outwits her husband, a local judge, and her brother, Grim. This oral tale was given
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