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Sweet treats emerge from festival's melting pot

There will be enough ladies' arms to strangle an army of men, but the bake does not stop there. Isaiah's Delights, a Middle Eastern sweets shop in Fairfield Heights, will be knee-deep in Iranian cookies and Lebanese ''lady's arm'' pastries this morning as it prepares hundreds of exotic sweets for Sweet As, a multicultural food festival in south-west Sydney today. Look beyond the lamington - that is the edict of the festival, which takes over the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre today as part of the Crave Sydney International Food Festival.  More than 6000 Middle Eastern, European, Pacific Islander and Asian sweets cooked by local businesses will be sold, along with locally produced tea and coffee in a feast of colour, smell and flavour. ''The lady's arms are popular because of the cream, which we make from scratch ourselves,'' Rita Odisho, owner of Isaiah's Sweets, said. ''Every Lebanese place differentiates theirs by ...