if it's too hard, that's underripe. just a little pinch. are in pretty nice shape. >> now what you got to do -- and be careful with your knife, okay? -- but you want to cut it in half, okay? >> remember, you always need your parents' permission before you use a knife.to take my knife and put it between my fingers like this, and then just -- >> so you don't want your fingers anywhere near it, right? >> that's exactly right, and you can actually then rotate it -- once you get your cut in, you can just rotate it like that, and it cuts it right around the pit, and then you just twist it and open it up. see how it's nice and green and soft? >> oh, that's beautiful. yeah. >> okay. now, there's different ways of getting that pit out. a lot of chefs will take a knife -- if you're gonna make guacamole, okay, where it's gonna end up being smashed up anyway, you can just take it and squeeze it and pop it out. >> [ chuckles ] >> okay? that's an easy way to do it. >> okay. >> and then you can also just take a spoon and just... >> scoop everything out? >

. >> so what they're making now -- it's basically baby watermelon, underripe watermelon.f a speciality of southern gaza generally but also sinai. it's usually something that's made specifically by men, i was told here. so they begin by -- you can see over there, roasting the baby watermelons. they cover them with aluminum foil. they put them through a wire, kind of like a rustic skewer. and then they just throw them in there. and the idea is that they take the pulp out, so that's what's going on. and then what they do while that's fire roasting is they knead an unleavened dough over there with whole wheat, barley, plenty of rich, extra virgin olive oil. and then they throw that into the pit as well, or they dig a pit in the sand over there. and that's fire baked. >> right in the coals? >> yep. and they mix that all together. so it's interesting. because right now, we're about, what, 35 minutes away from gaza city. ask anyone in gaza city if they've heard of this dish and, no. so even in an area as small as gaza, you see this very wide variation. they're going to clean it