Iraq is not in Sepharad, and Iraqi Jews are not typically Sephardi. The flattening of global Jewry to a false dichotomy of either Ashkenazi or Sephardi is ahistorical and increasingly socially unacceptable. Especially coming from a writer who isn't even Jewish at all - as I understand it, Romanow (the author of this article) is not Jewish, but an enthusiast and student of Jewish food culture. Which is fine, but she should really be more cognizant of the intricacies of Jewish ethnic groups if she is going to expound on them.
Iraq is not in Sepharad, and Iraqi Jews are not typically Sephardi. The flattening of global Jewry to a false dichotomy of either Ashkenazi or Sephardi is ahistorical and increasingly socially unacceptable. Especially coming from a writer who isn't even Jewish at all - as I understand it, Romanow (the author of this article) is not Jewish, but an enthusiast and student of Jewish food culture. Which is fine, but she should really be more cognizant of the intricacies of Jewish ethnic groups if she is going to expound on them.