Monthly Archives: May 2009

Dandelion salad (Hindbeh ‘atteh)

I absolutely love that dish. I ate it once at the home of Sadek Tabbarah, a Lebanese architect. His wife had made it and we ate it along with halloom sandwiches for dinner. Glistening with  olive oil, studded with  pine nuts, mellow from the caramelized onions and tangy with lemon juice, I thought at the time [...]
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The culinary heritage of LEBANON, by Chef Ramzi

I started watching Chef Ramzi on Future TV a year or so ago. I especially enjoyed his segments on traditional Lebanese cuisine. On Saturdays, he would travel through the countryside, stop in a village and visit the local folks and watch them cook their homestyle dishes. I was fascinated. Then I learned that he had [...]
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Cabbage salad

This salad, our Lebanese coleslaw, reminds me of Nayla, a classmate that I used to accompany home for lunch everyday for a few months until the war (it was in 1975)  and frequent sniper fire forced us to stay home.  Her dad was a deputy (Member of Parliament) for the South and their apartment had [...]
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