Let Them Eat Bread? Naw...

"Most people, when they heard it was for the fighters gave many onions, tomatoes, tuna and olives, all for free." Emad Daiki

Who says there's no universal cuisine? When it's abundantly obvious there is at least one. Some call it fast food, convenience food, but it is also nutritious and delicious food. On a slab of bread dough the imagination can run rampant. Sprinkling over that flattened bread dough any number of food combinations from chopped vegetables to meat products, cheese and herbs, glued together with tomato paste.

How could that combination not represent a healthy repast? How could it fail to be mouth-watering? How could it fail the test of satisfying a famished fighter? Even someone busy lobbing mortars and rockets over at an enemy base. Did we say that? Surely we meant kids at a high school celebrating after a big sports meet with their team coming out a winner.

Well, no. In Misrata volunteers deliver hot pizza to rebel fighters on the front line. It's hungry work operating a rebellion and escaping death by chance when regime battalions send rockets and sharp-shooters out to settle things down. And 8,000 pieces of pizza are delivered daily to the three front lines battling Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces.

Inspired by a returned Libyan chef, Emad Daiki, who ran a pizzeria in Stockholm and decided to do the same, after a fashion in Misrata. "We have to keep the fighters strong and their morale up, they cannot just eat bread", he explained.
"A Libyan rebel fighter distributes pizzas to his comrades inside a mosque taken from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi"