Not only beans can predict when they will next eat. The cooks who prepare the beans are also familiar with the transportation routes in the area. Every day, a family from the Syrian village of Harasta in the north travels to set up shop in the Central Market. After having dinner of roasted honey and cheese, they will use the opportunity to discuss the difficulties in transporting their cuisine. Turkey and Aleppo ship olive oil to Beirut. To get the olive oil to Lebanon, the family will need to spend many weeks on a boat traveling thousands of kilometers across the Mediterranean Sea. Once they cross the lake, the mountains, and the backwaters, they will cruise to the Libyan shore.