Daily Archives: January 31, 2010

Holy Bread (Qurban)

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 store; [...]
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Giveaway result

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 I [...]
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