Jasmine Bakery doesn’t make baklava — yet, says Alsaeed. When it does, then Ottawa’s Syrian baklava specialist Alkadour Sweets might finally have some competition. In Ottawa over the years ...

Growing up in Lebanon and Syria, she’d watch her grandmother fold ... Eastern desserts to dinner parties — homemade knafeh, baklava, pudding tinged with orange blossom, barazek — and friends ...