"Our Rhodesli family, (from the Island of Rhodes, currently Greece, but in the times of our family, a Turkish or Ottoman possession) loves this moon-shaped pastry, with a conduchu (filling) of rice and cheeses." (Sephardic Heritage Cookbook: Ottoman, Persian, Moroccan, Egyptian Recipes and More by Sephardic Temple Or Chadash Sisterhood)

"We settled in the area of 52nd Street and Hoover, east of downtown Los Angeles, close to the Coliseum. It was, at the time, the center of Rhodesli Sephardic life in Los Angeles." (Sephardic Heritage Cookbook: Ottoman, Persian, Moroccan, Egyptian Recipes and More by Sephardic Temple Or Chadash Sisterhood)