Monthly Archives: January 2010

Holy Bread (Qurban)

Tweet This sweet (holy)  bread is just good! According to Chef Ramzi, in The Culinary Heritage of Lebanon, this recipe is at least 100  years old; how about dating  back to the  Byzantine period? In the town of Deir el Qamar in the Shouf where  our family originates,we  would buy this sweet bread at the [...]
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Giveaway result

Tweet I think it was the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet) who emphasized that one’s children are their own people and will fly out of the nest like birds do, or something to that effect; I don’t know why but this thought of his stuck with me !  He was right, OF COURSE, and [...]
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Tangerine Sorbet

Tweet My parents used to entertain frequently at home while I was growing up in Beirut; my mother would often serve this dessert  when tangerines were in season; she would carve the flesh out of the fruit, make a sorbet  and  fill the fruit with it. Yesterday,  I stopped by the Vietnamese market on my [...]
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