Not just beans are able to forecast when they will eat again. The cooks who make the beans are also knowledgeable about the local transit system. A family from the northern Syrian village of Harasta comes to the Central Market every day to set up shop. They will take the chance to talk about the challenges of bringing their food as they have dinner of roasted honey and cheese. Aleppo and Turkey export olive oil to Beirut. The family will have to spend many weeks on a boat, sailing thousands of kilometers across the Mediterranean Sea, in order to get the olive oil to Lebanon. They will sail to the Libyan shore when they have crossed the lake, the mountains, and the backwaters.